Steven T. Katz

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

Life

Steven Theodore Katz began studying at Rutgers University in 1966 and earned a Ph.D. in 1972. 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 has been director of the "Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies" at Boston University and professor for Jewish and Holocaust Studies.

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

At the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum he is a member of the scientific advisory board and was its chairman for a period of five years, as well as chairman of the "Holocaust Commission of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture". He is one of the members of the Task Force for International Cooperation in Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research sent from the USA .

Of his multi-volume basic work The Holocaust in Historical Context , only a first volume, The Holocaust and Mass Death before the Modern Age, has been published in 1994, with which Katz affirmed the position of uniqueness in the singularity debate in Holocaust research. Katz was also on the "International Editorial Board" of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust , published in 1990, and has also published new editions of works a. a. supervised by Saadiah Gaon , Jakob Guttmann and Julius Guttmann .

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

Fonts

  • Jewish Philosophers. Bloch, New York 1975.
  • Jewish Ideas and Concepts. 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.
  • The Holocaust in Historical Context. Vol. 1: The Holocaust and Mass Death before the Modern Age. Oxford University Press, New York 1994, ISBN 0-19-507220-0 .
  • Mysticism and Sacred Scripture. Oxford University Press, New York 2000.
  • Continuity and discontinuity between Christian and National Socialist anti-Semitism. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147544-5 (lecture at the Lucas Prize 1999).

literature

  • Volker Drehsen : Address at the Lucas Prize 1999. In: Steven Theodore Katz: Continuity and discontinuity between Christian and National Socialist anti-Semitism. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147544-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Steven T. Katz: The Holocaust in Historical Context. S. ix.
personal data
SURNAME Katz, Steven T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katz, Steven Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City