Steven T. Katz

Steven T. Katz ( born August 24, 1944 in Jersey City ) is an American historian of Judaism and the Holocaust.

Life

Steven Theodore Katz began his studies in 1966 at Rutgers University in 1972 and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge ( Cantab ). He began his university career in 1972 at Dartmouth College. From 1985 to 1989 he taught at Cornell University. Since 1989 he is director of the " Center for Judaic Studies Elie Wiesel " Boston University and a professor of Jewish and Holocaust Studies.

He stays as a visiting professor at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was in 1989/90 as " Meyerhoff Professor " at the University of Pennsylvania and also also at Yeshiva University (1995 /96) and had in the years 1981 /84 2002/ 03 and 2006/ 08 research at Harvard University.

At the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, he is member of the Scientific Advisory Board and was for a period of five years as its chairman, as he is chairman of the " Holocaust Commission of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture ." He belongs to the seconded from the U.S. members of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.

From his several volumes applied basic work, The Holocaust in Historical Context only a first band, The Holocaust and Mass Death before the Modern Age is not yet published in 1994, has reaffirmed the position of the singularity with the cat in the singularity debate in Holocaust research. Katz was also in the " International Editorial Board" 1990 in Encyclopedia of the Holocaust and also has new editions of works by artists such supervised by Saadiah Gaon, Jacob Guttmann Julius Guttmann and.

Katz received in 1999 from the University of Tübingen Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize. With his wife, Rebecca, he has three children Shira, Tamar and Yehuda.

Writings

  • Jewish Philosophers. Bloch, New York 1975.
  • Jewish Ideas and Concepts. In 1977.
  • Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis. Oxford University Press, New York 1978.
  • Post- Holocaust Dialogues: critical studies in modern Jewish thought. New York University Press, New York 1983.
  • Mysticism and Religious Traditions. Oxford University Press, New York 1983.
  • Historicism, the Holocaust, and Zionism: critical studies in modern Jewish thought and history.New York Univ. Press, New York, London, 1992, ISBN 0-8147-4616-0.
  • Mysticism and Language. Oxford University Press, New York 1992.
  • Mysticism and Sacred Scripture. Oxford University Press, New York 2000.
  • Continuity and discontinuity between the Christian and Nazi anti-Semitism. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147544-5 ( Lecture at Lucas Prize 1999).
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