An Open Society: Jerzy Giedroyc’s Vision of Europe and Its Borderlands

The guests at the next meeting of the Open Community will be Grzegorz Gauden and Jarosław Kurski. Moderator: Tomasz Dostatni, OP. The discussion will focus on Jerzy Giedroyc’s vision of Europe and its borderlands. The debate marks the 120th anniversary of the Editor’s birth. Jarosław Kurski – journalist and columnist. From 2008 to 2023, he served as deputy editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza. He effectively ran Gazeta Wyborcza. He was active in the democratic opposition during the Polish People’s Republic. He served as Lech Wałęsa’s spokesperson. He has been with Gazeta Wyborcza since 1992. Author of, among other works, the bestselling book *Dziady i dybuki* (Forefathers and Dybuks), in which he recounted the history of his Jewish family on his mother’s side, as well as biographies of Jan Nowak-Jeziorański and Raymond Aron. Grzegorz Gauden – a print and radio journalist. An activist in the democratic opposition in the People’s Republic of Poland. Interned during martial law. An emigrant in Sweden from 1984 to 1993. Editor-in-chief of “Rzeczpospolita” 204–206, and director of the Book Institute from 2008 to 2016. Author of the books: “Lwów – The End of Illusions: A Story of the November 1918 Pogrom,” for which he received the “Polityka” History Award in 2020. In 2024, he published the book "The Polish Dreyfus Affair: Who Tried to Kill the President." An event accompanying the 3rd Dietrich Bonhoeffer Festival in Szczecin.