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  • Summer 2020
    • A Word From Our Director
    • Forthcoming Center Events
    • Articles >
      • 1. Prominent Polish-Jewish Intellectual Named First Center Fellow
      • 2. Yom HaShoah Commemorations
      • 3. Center and Partners Organized Program Against Police Brutality in NC
      • 4. Research by the Center Affiliated Faculty
      • 5. Expanded Cooperation with AppTV
      • 6. Training the Next Generation of Holocaust Scholars and Educators in Washington, DC
      • 7. Center Participates in German Initiative to Fight Antisemitism and Strengthen Democracy
  • Winter 2020
    • Articles >
      • 1. Online Center Database Gives Public Access to Survivor and Scholarly Voices
      • 2. Rethinking the Summer Symposium in Times of a Pandemic
      • 3. Research by the Center Affiliated Faculty
      • 4. Center Fall Programming Goes Global during the “Zoom Age”
      • 5. Center Commemorates “Kristallnacht” Amidst Increasing Antisemitism and Attacks on Synagogues
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Prominent Polish-Jewish Intellectual Named First Center Fellow

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First Senior Fellow Professor Kostek Gebert (Warsaw, Poland)
Last year, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies introduced a new program that brings an established scholar and intellectual in JHPS to campus. The recipient will be in residence at the Center for one semester, conduct research, teach a class, and participate in all programs. After an international search, the committee is proud to announce that Prof. Kostek Gebert (Warsaw, Poland) has accepted our offer. Prof. Gebert is nothing short of a legend. He combines, as one of his recommenders from Italy described, the “role of a public intellectual of the highest class” with numerous scholarly and non-scholarly undertakings, including that of one of the leading journalists in Poland and Europe. 
    Gebert has taught psychology at the Medical Academy, Warsaw, under Communist rule, but soon came into conflict with the regime. He co-founded the famed (unofficial) Jewish Flying University in the 1970s. In 1989, he joined the newly-founded Gazeta Wyborcza, now a leading Polish daily, and continues to contribute to many international media outlets, including the BBC. Gebert established the Midrasz magazine, which remains Poland’s most influential Jewish publication. He is the author of sixteen books and is one of the most prominent voices in the (re)building of the Jewish community in Poland.  Despite the paused visa program, we hope to be able to welcome him on campus soon! 
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