Professor of Religion; Alvin J. Slater and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish Holocaust Studies
Steven T. Katz, Founding Director of the EWCJS, is an expert in modern Jewish thought and comparative mysticism. The first of a three-volume study on the Holocaust in Historical Context appeared in 1994. Katz is the editor of the journal Modern Judaism. He has held fellowships and lectured at universities all over the world, including Australia, China, England, Israel, and South Africa. In December 2010 he was appointed Academic Adviser to the International Task Force on the Holocaust, sponsored by the European Union. In 2011-2012, he was the Levine Invitational Fellow at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.
Courses in Jewish Studies
- Introduction to Judaism (RN 216)
- The Holocaust (RN 384/684)
- Introduction to Classical Jewish History (RN 218)
- Judaism in the Modern Period (RN 328/628)
- Jewish Mysticism (RN 325/625)