Konstanty Gebert
Bio:
Konstanty Gebert serves as a special advisor on international affairs with Humanity in Action. In this capacity, he advises the Humanity in Action international staff, Fellows and Senior Fellows. Gebert is an associate fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations and an international reporter and columnist at “Gazeta Wyborcza,” Poland’s largest daily publication. During the 1970s, he was a democratic opposition activist and organizer of the Jewish Flying University, while in the 1980s, under martial law, he was an underground journalist. He covered the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995 for Polish and international media. He is the co-founder of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews and the founder of Midrasz, a monthly Polish Jewish intellectual publication. Gebert serves as a board member for the Taube Centre for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland as well as the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and the Advisory Board of the Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund in Amsterdam. He has taught across Poland, Israel and the US. He has authored ten books, which examine topics such as: the Polish democratic transformation, French policy toward Poland, the Yugoslav wars, the wars of Israel, Torah commentary and post-war Polish Jewry. His essays have appeared in two dozen publications in Poland and abroad, and his articles have been featured in newspapers around the world.
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The Banality of Genocide
In 2011, Humanity in Action published its first book, Reflections on the Holocaust. The essays collected in this volume were written by Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior… Read More
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Warsaw: The Guilt of Indifference
Published by Humanity in Action in 2013, Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue examines the different ways that European… Read More
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On Antisemitism
December 27, 2015 – Warsaw The appalling rise of violent antisemitism in Europe in this century is by now a well-established fact. We also know its main features: it… Read More
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Talking Gaza: Some Practical Suggestions About How to Discuss the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
August 22, 2014 – Warsaw Konstanty Gebert is a journalist and international affairs commentator based in Warsaw. Konstanty has spoken to Humanity in Action Fellows in our… Read More
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On Refugees
November 7, 2015 – Warsaw The refugee issue is the single most important challenge facing the EU today, indeed, the biggest challenge the Union has been faced… Read More
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Europe’s Migrant Reception Crisis, Eastern Europe’s ‘Crisis of Shame’
With David Liebers
An Interview with Konstanty Gebert conducted by Senior Fellow David Liebers David Liebers (DL): Poland’s refusal to accept refugees seems founded on the idea that doing so… Read More
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The Banality of Genocide
This speech was delivered at the first annual Humanity in Action International Conference in Amsterdam on July 2, 2010. General Roméo Dallaire was the commander of the… Read More
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Poles and Jews: Shared History with Diverging Narratives
Konstanty Gebert, associate fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations and reporter and columnist at “Gazeta Wyborcza,” delivers a keynote address at the… Read More
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Witnessing the War: A Correspondent’s Perspective
Noted Journalist Konstanty Gebert leads a breakout session in which he discusses the role of journalism and journalists during conflict, specifically the Bosnian War, at the… Read More
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Different Realities, Different Perceptions: Case of Poland, Bulgaria and France
With Anthony Georgieff, Flemming Rose, Anette Wieviorka
Panel Discussion with Konstanty Gebert (Associate Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations), Anthony Georgieff (Journalist and Managing Editor, Vagabond) and Dr. Annette… Read More
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Conceptualizing Borders
Celebrated journalist Konstanty Gebert delivers one of the keynote addresses at Humanity in Action's 2014 International Conference in Sønderborg, Denmark on June 27,… Read More
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Reflections on the Holocaust
With Jacob Boersema, Kelly Bunch, Matthew Canfield, Tomasz Cebulski, Sharon Chin, Fabian Franke, Judith Goldstein, Sheri Halpern, Saskia Hansen, Vera Jotanovic, Juliana Karol, Joseph Kolker, Matthijs Kronemeijer, Nick Micinski, Noam Schimmel, Birte Schöler, Darren Teshima, Julia Zarankin
In 2011, Humanity in Action published its first book, Reflections on the Holocaust. The essays collected in this volume were written by Humanity in Action Fellows,… Read More
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Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue
With Annette Wieviorka, Richard Breitman, Anthony Georgieff, Judith Goldstein, Ulrich Herbert, Anders Jerichow, Karin Kvist Geverts, Sofie Lene Bak, Ronald Leopold , Irene Levin, Bob Moore, Oula Silvennoinen, Cecilie Stokholm Banke
In 2013, Humanity in Action published Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue. The essays in this anthology examine how European… Read More