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Steven T. Katz
Professor of Jewish History and Thought
Department of Near Eastern studies, Cornell University
“The Distinctiveness of the Holocaust”
Lecture was given: Thursday, March 28, 1996 7:00p.m. Gore Auditorium
Seminar was held: Friday, March 29, 1996 11:00a.m. Gore Auditorium
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Steven T. Katz, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., D.H.L., B.D., is Professor of Near Eastern studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. At Cornell he has been Chair of the department of Near Eastern Studies from 1985-1988 and Director of the Jewish studies Program 1985-1989.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1972. In addition to his regular teaching appointments at Dartmouth College (1972-1984) and Cornell University (1984 to present), he had been a visiting Professor at Yale, University of California at Santa Barbara, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1989-90 was the Meyerhoff Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1994-95 was Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from 1981-1984.
His publications include Jewish Philosophers (1975); Jewish Ideas and Concepts (1977); Post-Holocaust Dialogues, which won the National Jewish book Award in 1984; Historicism, the Holocaust and Zionism (1992) and the multi-volume study entitled The Holocaust in Historical Context, vol. 1 of which appeared in 1994, and has now won the Association of American Publishers’ Award for the Best Book of 1994 in the areas of philosophy and theology. Katz has also contributed to and edited three important books on mysticism, Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (1978); Mysticism and Religious Traditions (1993) and Mysticism and Language. He is also the editor of the journal Modern Judaism.
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