How Europe’s Challenged Stability Affects Its Minorities: A Polish Perspective

Sebastian Rejak, Special Envoy of Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs for Relations with the Jewish Diaspora

Dr. Rejak will focus on the Ukrainian issue (east of Poland) and the terrorist challenges in France, Belgium and the U.K. (west of Poland) to discuss how terrorism affects multicultural dynamics and immigrant communities in Europe and specifically in Poland. He will also touch on the issue of recent Jewish emigration from Europe which he says is linked to the ubiquitous feeling that Europe is no longer safe for Jews. Dr. Rejak has been working for the Polish Foreign Ministry since 2006 in the domain of Polish-Jewish relations. He completed his doctoral studies at the Graduate School for Social Research, affiliated to the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr. Rejak is a member of the Polish Society for Jewish Studies and sits on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Polish-Jewish Studies (associated with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies).