About the Professor

Professor Michael A. Signer, Rabbi Abrams Chair of Jewish Thought and Culture   Theology Department University of Notre Dame

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.