The Luncheon Club: Council of Christians and Jews Vic

Speaker: Andrzej Folwarczny

 

About the speaker: Andrzej Folwarczny is the founder and President of Forum for Dialogue Among Nations, the largest and oldest Polish non-governmental organization engaging in the Polish-Jewish dialogue. Between 1997 and 2001 he served as a member of the Polish National Parliament (Sejm) during which he acted as the Chairman of the Polish-Israeli Parliamentary Group. Andrzej Folwarczny co-edited the book Difficult Questions in Jewish-Polish Dialogue, published in 2006 in collaboration with AJC. Between 1999 and 2004 he served as Vice-Resident of the Israel-Poland Friendship Association (Towarzystwo Przyjaźni Polso-Izraelskiej). Forum for Dialogue Among Nations is dedicated to inspiring new connections between contemporary Poland and the Jewish People. Through education, encounters, and building people-to-people trust we write a new chapter of Polish-Jewish History.

Andrzej will talk on: Bringing Back the memory. Polish-Jewish dialogue in the present day Poland.

Cost: $15 including light Kosher lunch. Tickets at the door. 

RSVP: 24 November 2015  to Liz 0414 640 384 or Walter 0419 510 712; email: ccjvic@bigpond.net.au