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Professor Michael A. Signer, RabbiAbrams Chair of Jewish Thought and CultureTheology Department University of Notre Dame |
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Rabbi Michael
Signer is Director of the Notre Dame Holocaust Project, and is the
Abrams Chair of Jewish Thought and Culture.
Prior to joining
the faculty in 1992, he served as Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.
His interest in
interreligious affairs began during his doctoral studies at the Center
for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and he later
participated in the Priest-Rabbi dialogue at St. John’s Seminary, where
he and others founded the St. John's/Hebrew Union College academic
exchange.
He has taught in
universities in Berlin and Augsburg, and was American Jewish Committee
Scholar at Catholic Institutions in Poland.
Rabbi Signer is
the author and editor of five books on topics that range from Medieval
Latin biblical commentaries to contemporary Jewish-Christian relations,
and is one of the four authors of Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on
Christians and Christianity.
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by the Contributing Authors.
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ehartzer. (2006, September 12). About the Professor. Retrieved August 20, 2008, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/theology/jews-and-christians-throughout-history/about-the-professor.
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