Steven T. Katz

Steven T. Katz is a Jewish philosopher and scholar. He is the director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University in Massachusetts, USA.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England in 1972.

Prior to his appointment at Boston University, Prof. Katz taught at Dartmouth College from 1972 to 1984. He joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1984 through 1996 as a Professor of Near Eastern Studies (Judaica); during the years 1985–1989 he served as Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Jewish Studies Program.

He adopts a "Contextualist" interpretation of mysticism, and has contributed to and edited a number of books dealing with mysticism.

Prof. Katz is the editor of "Modern Judaism", an academic quarterly. He was on the editorial board of the "Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust" (NY: Macmillan, 1990, Hebrew and English-language editions).

elected publications

* "Jewish Philosophers" (1975). ISBN 0819703877
* "Jewish Ideas and Concepts" (1977)
* "Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis" (1978)
* "Post-Holocaust Dialogues" (1984)
* "Historicism, the Holocaust and Zionism" (1992)
* "The Holocaust in Historical Context", Vol. 1 (1994)

Awards

* 1984 - National Jewish Book Award for "Post-Holocaust Dialogues"
* 1994 - "Outstanding book in philosophy and theology" (American Association of University Publishers) for "The Holocaust in Historical Context"
* 1999 - Lucas Prize (University of Tübingen)
* 2007 - National Jewish Book Award for Volume IV of "The Cambridge History of Judaism, The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period"
* 2007 - National Jewish Book Award runner-up for "Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses During and After the Holocaust"

External links

* [http://www.bu.edu/religion/faculty/bios/katz.html Homepage at Boston University]