Brandeis Center Welcomes Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska–Grabias to the Brandeis Blog Team

agliszczynskagrabias_clip_image002The Louis D. Brandeis Center has recently had the pleasure of adding yet another impressive figure to the center’s long list of blog contributors. Polish legal scholar Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska–Grabias will now be a regular contributor to the Brandeis Center blog. Dr. Gliszczyńska-Grabias joins a team of impressive legal and historical minds who regularly contribute to the Brandeis Center Blog, including Gil Troy, Greg Lukianoff, Alyza Lewin, Harold Brackman, Andre Oboler, Lesley Klaff and Rafael Medoff. Said Louis D. Brandeis President Kenneth L. Marcus, “Dr. Gliszczyńska–Grabias is emerging as an important voice in international human rights legal scholarship, especially as it relates to anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli discrimination, and I am excited to welcome yet another truly impressive scholar to the team of bloggers at the Brandeis Center.”

As a young legal scholar with an expertise in international human rights law, Dr. Gliszczyńska–Grabias brings a long and remarkable list of accomplishments to the Brandeis Center’s blog team. After graduating from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, she went on to receive several awards and recognitions. Some of these honors include the 2012 Fellowship of the Foundation for Polish Science for outstanding achievements in science and research, the 2010/2011 Graduate Fellow of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of anti-Semitism at Yale University, and the 2010 and 2009 Felix Posen Fellowship for doctoral candidates of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Currently, Dr. Gliszczyńska-Grabias works as a Senior Researcher at the Poznan Human Rights Centre, Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. There she has defended her PhD on counteracting anti-Semitism with legal instruments of international human rights law. Along with this strong background in human rights law, specifically in regards to anti-Semitism, Dr. Gliszczyńska-Grabias has co-authored and co-edited the first Polish Commentary to the International Covenant on the Civil and Political Rights. She also prepares written analysis and reports for both the Polish Parliament and the European Commission. As if this does not keep her busy enough, Dr. Gliszczyńska-Grabias also currently serves as a Vice-President of the “Open Republic” Association against anti-Semitism and Xenophobia, which is a leading Polish NGO focused on counteracting intolerance, hatred and prejudice.

As the Brandeis Center continues to expand, the Brandeis Blog has emerged as an exciting place to find many important voices on anti-Semitism and human rights. Various bloggers contribute on these topics regularly, many times even taking a look at anti-Semitism and human rights in the context of history. Rafael Medoff, for example, has contributed a fascinating piece addressing “The Truth About FDR and the Jews,” while Harold Brackman has discussed “The ‘White-Out’ of Jews from the Jackie Robinson Saga.”

Other scholars contributing to the blog take a look at the complex dynamics of anti-Semitism from a modern day perspective, for example Andre Oboler’s piece on “Anti-Semitism and Facebook.” On the topic of addressing modern day anti-Semitism, another piece not to be missed is Alyza Lewin’s “Where Was the President When He Was Supposedly in Israel?

In addition to the array of information regarding the topics of anti-Semitism and human rights, the Brandeis Blog also serves as a great way to keep updated on the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s campaign against campus anti-Semitism. Such articles would include Danit Sibovits’ piece on “The Brandeis Center’s New Litigation Initiative.”