Judit Gellerd
About the Author
Growing up in Transylvania during the early years of Communist rule in Eastern Europe, she graduated first from music conservatory as a violinist, then from medical school. After her immigration to Budapest, Hungary, she specialized in neuro-psychiatry and practiced medicine for fifteen years. She married Californian professor George M. Williams and moved to the United States in 1988. Judit and George have been instrumental in creating the world-wide grassroots movement, the Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Program. Judit serves as its founding honorary president. The Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California, awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1995, and the UU Partner Church Council presented her with the first “Living the Mission Award” in 1999.
In 2002 she graduated from Boston University’s School of Theology and was ordained by the Transylvanian Unitarian Church. She studied with Nobel Peace laureate professor Elie Wiesel, and under his encouragement and guidance she began her oral history project, resulting in this book.
Resources by Judit Gellerd
Prisoner of Liberte, the Story of a Transylvanian Martyr
The true story of Transylvanian minister-scholar Rev. Dr. Imre Gellerd. This "literature of witness" tells of one victim of Romanian Communism.
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Transylvanian Unitarian Church
Transylvania is the cradle of Unitarianism, the most liberal faith of the Protestant Reformation. Unitarians were the first to proclaim and practice freedom of religion and tolerance in 16th century Europe. John Erdö’s Chronological History and Theological Essays was the only Hungarian-language, Unitarian publication during the decades-long Romanian dictatorship. This chronological history conveniently provides a brief account of the most relevant events in the life of the Unitarian Church from its 16th century foundation through its 400th anniversary in 1972. Three additional essays elaborate early Unitarian history and its theological foundations.
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