Title
Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Russian and East European Studies
Expertise
East European Jewish history. Holocaust studies.
Degrees
Oxford University, D.Phil.
Oxford University, B.A.
Awards and Honors
Oskar Halecki Prize of the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), (2008)
Gantz-Zahler prize of the Foundation for Jewish Culture for a forthcoming book on Jewish history. (2007)
I have been awarded the Ina Levine Invitational Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (2007)
2006 Rafael Scharf Award for outstanding achievement in preserving and making known the heritage of Polish Jewry (2006)
Volume 17 of POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry was runner-up for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Eastern European Studies (2005)
Knight's Cross, Order of merit, Republic of Poland, for "outstanding services to studies in Polish Jewry" (1999)
National Jewish Book Award in East European Studies (IPOLIN) (1999)
Skirball Visiting Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (1997 - 1998)
Walter Stern Hilborn Chair in Judaic and Social Studies (1993)
US National Jewish Book Award in Holocaust category (A Cup of Tears) (1990)
Edith & Joseph Sunlight Memorial Prize (A Cup of Tears) (1989)
Rhodes Scholarship (Transvaal) (1960)
Abe Bailey Memorial Essay Prize (1959)
Charles Payne History Prize (1958)
Courses Taught
| NEJS | 136b | History and Culture of the Jews in East-Central Europe, 1914 to the Present |
| NEJS | 137a | The Destruction of European Jewry |
| NEJS | 138a | Genocide |
| NEJS | 142a | Modern History of East European Jewry |
| NEJS | 142b | Secular Jews: Lives and Choices from 1750 to the Present |
| NEJS | 150b | History of Poland since 1750 |
| NEJS | 236a | Seminar on Modern Jewish History and Historiography |
| USEM | 1b | Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe |
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