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Rabbi Gershon Bacon

Rabbi Professor Gerson Bacon is a retired associate professor of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University, where he held the Marcell and Maria Roth Chair for the History and Culture of Polish Jewry. He is an expert in the history of East European Jewry, specializing in the social, political, and religious history of Polish Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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