What can activists from other countries teach us about living through and resisting authoritarian regimes?
Join T’ruah as we host two incredible leaders who will share their wisdom and lessons for us from their own contexts as we collectively prepare for a second Trump administration.
Activists throughout history and in countries all over the world – including, of course, marginalized communities in the U.S. – have resisted authoritarian governments and have much to teach. We believe that it will be helpful to zoom out of our own context here in the U.S. and into a snapshot of what it was like for these two Jewish leaders to witness and shape history in their communities.
Speakers:
Konstanty Gebert is a Polish journalist, author, and public intellectual known for his work on Jewish identity, Polish history, and international affairs. A founding figure in Poland’s Jewish intellectual community, he has written extensively on the Holocaust, Jewish culture, and Middle Eastern politics. During the 1980s, Gebert was an active dissident in the Solidarity movement, writing under the pseudonym “Dawid Warszawski” for underground publications. After communism’s fall, he became a prominent voice in Poland’s free press.