Biography and Education

BIOGRAPHY:

Born in 1984 to Polish-born parents who have mixed ancestries. My father's ancestors were the members of the noble family Rubinowski who was exiled to eastern coasts of Crimea in 19th century following their participation in nationalist Polish insurgencies. My mother's family had reached Poland in Gypsy Vardos, all the way from Czechia. My grandfather Edmund was a forced labourer (Zwangarbeider) during World War II, who had also lived in Bassin Minier in Lille during his childhood.

EDUCATION:

I published my first newspaper at the age of 12. In 2003, I earned my IB Diploma and wrote my Extended Essay about the victory of  Israel's Labor Party in the 1999 elections to the Knesset.

In 2016, I graduated from Amsterdam Law School where I majored in children's rights and international law, wrote for the Alibi and for Folia, contributed to the local tv channels Salto1 and StudentenTV as a studio assistant.   

At Time Out Amsterdam (2009), I explored magazine journalism and was editorial intern. I also followed classes in cultural journalism by the NYT arts correspondent Nina Siegal (2011),  and spent one month in Bonn- based Deutsche Welle news channel as online editorial intern (2015), also as  German-Polish translator and a researcher.

I also studied Hebrew language and culture part-time at the University of Amsterdam (2009-2014), Warsaw University (2016), and Ulpan Gordon in Tel Aviv (Level Dalet, July 2010).  

Fluent speaker of Dutch, English, Hebrew, and Polish. Some knowledge of other languages incl.: Italian, German, French, Egyptian Arabic.