| Konstanty Gebert (born in 1953 in Warsaw) is an author,
journalist, lecturer, and political activist. In 1976 he graduated from the Department of Psychology at the University of Warsaw.
He was a prominent figure in the democratic opposition in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. He co-founded unofficial
Jewish Flying University (1979), the Polish Council of Christians and Jews (1980), and a trade union of the employees in
academia, technology and education which merged with Solidarnosc (1980). In 1981 he avoided internment and during
the Marshal Law in Poland he continued to write and publish articles for various underground publications under the pseudonym Dawid Warszawski.
Mr. Gebert also served as a reporter on the war in Bosnia for Gazeta Wyborcza, a top Polish
newspaper. His articles have been widely published in a variety of national periodicals as well as foreign media, such as the
BBC. He has written several books, including a first-hand account of the Polish Round Table negotiations of 1989 and a
book about the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Currently he is a journalist in Gazeta Wyborcza. Mr. Gebert is also a founder and
editor of Midrasz, the first Polish-language Jewish periodical in post-communist Poland. His articles have appeared in
publications across the world. He also frequently appears on Polish television and radio. Mr. Gebert has lectured in Poland,
Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the USA. |
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