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Staff Profile: Konstanty Gebert

Recent Commentary

• Sanctions: a useful but flawed alternative to war
  15 Jan 13
• Why Poland is the new France for Germany
  19 Oct 12
• The EU summit: the view from the capitals
  27 Jun 12
• Reinventing Europe: Poland and the euro crisis
  07 Feb 12
• Why the EU should abstain on the Palestinian issue in the UNGA
  14 Sep 11

Recent Blogs

• No Turkish sermon in Warsaw
  05 Feb 12
• From Warsaw to Rangoon to Minsk?
  17 Jan 12
• Vaclav Havel: how dared he?
  19 Dec 11
• The noose tightens: Russian lessons for Israel
  15 Dec 11
• The president explains himself
  06 Dec 11

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recent press

• Eurasia Review
  16 Feb 13
• Penza News
  15 Feb 13
• Foreign Policy Association
  23 Jan 13
• Deutsche Welle
  16 Jan 13

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Konstanty Gebert is an international reporter and columnist at “Gazeta Wyborcza”, Poland’s biggest daily. He was a democratic opposition activist in the Seventies, when he was also an organizer of the Jewish Flying University, and an underground journalist in the Eighties under martial law. He is the founder of the Polish Jewish intellectual monthly Midrasz, and a  board member of the Taube Centre for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland and of Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. He has taught in Poland, Israel and the US. He wrote ten books, e.g. on the Polish democratic transformation and on French policy toward Poland, the Yugoslav wars and the wars of Israel, Torah commentary and post-war Polish Jewry.  His essays have appeared in two dozen collective works in Poland and abroad, and his articles in newspapers around the world.

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