THE ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL CENTER FOR CATHOLIC-JEWISH RELATIONS THE JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN

Scientific Council

Chairman of the Scientific Council:

Rev. prof. Przemysław Kantyka, Dean of the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lublin

Council members:

  • Prof. Glenda Abramson – Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford in England

  • Prof. David Assaf – Professor of Contemporary Jewish History at the Department of Jewish History in Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Dr. Jochen Böhler – Acting Head of the Department of Eastern European History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany

  • Prof. Joseph E. David – Professor of Law at Sapir Academic College in Israel, lecturer of Judaic Studies at Yale University and Law at Yale Law School in the USA

  • Prof. Giuseppe (Pino) ​​Di Luccio SJ – Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy

  • Rev. prof. Ph.D. Henryk Drawnel SDB – Professor of the Department of Biblical Philology and Intertestamental Literature of the Catholic University of Lublin, Section of Biblical Studies of the Catholic University of Lublin

  • Prof. Glenn Dynner – Professor of Judaic Studies at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York; Director of the Bennett Center at Fairfield University in the USA, co-editor of Shofar An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

  • Prof. Rabbi Walter Homolka – Rector of the Abraham Geiger College and professor of Jewish theology at the University of Potsdam in Germany

  • Prof. Rabbi Amir Jehoyada – Lecturer at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, Israel

  • Prof. Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt – Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Studies at Touro College Berlin in Berlin, Germany

  • Prof. Amy-Jill Levine – E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Department of Religious Studies and Graduate School of Religion, Nashville, USA

  • Prof. Yagil Limor – Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in Paris, France and Tel Aviv University in Israel

  • Ph.D. Roman Marcinkowski – Lecturer at the University of Warsaw and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

  • Prof. Maciej Münnich – Associate Professor of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Department of Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval History

  • Dr. Anatolii Podolskyi – Head of the Center of Jewish History and Culture of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

  • Rabbi David Rosen – Director of Interfaith Relations of the American Jewish Committee

  • Prof. Mariusz Rosik – Professor of Theological Sciences at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wrocław

  • Rabbi prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman – Professor at New York University

  • Dr. Faydra Shapiro – Director and founder of the Galilee Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations

  • Ph.D. Barbara Strzałkowska – Professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

  • Prof. Noson S. Yanofsky – Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College in the USA

  • Prof. Joshua Zimmerman – Head of the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and Eastern European Jewish History at Yeshiva University in New York

  • Rev. Dr. Piotr Żelazko – Vicar of the Patriarch of Jerusalem for Hebrew-speaking Catholics, Jerusalem, Israel

  • Prof. Sławomir Jacek Żurek – Director of the International Center for Research on the History and Cultural Heritage of Jews of Central and Eastern Europe