03.14.2012 - By Osher Marin JCC
Konstanty Gebert, scholar in residence at the Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland, is a journalist, former Solidarity dissident, a Jewish activist, and one of PolandÂs notable war correspondents of the Balkan War, Gebert was a leading organizer of the ÂJewish Flying University and founding publisher in 1997 of Midrasz, a Polish-Jewish monthly magazine. He continues to publish a weekly political column in Gazeta Wyborcza. In a recent visit to SF, Gebert spoke about the upswing in PolandÂs Jewish community since the fall of the Soviet empire