Michał Galas
Visiting Professor
Skalny Center for Polish and
Central European Studies
Office Address:
Department of Jewish Studies
Jagiellonian University
ul. Batorego 12
31-135 Kraków
Poland
tel. 48.12. 633 70 58
e-mail: uwgalas@if.uj.edu.pl
EDUCATION
1997 - Ph.D.
in humanities with specialization in history of religions at the Department of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University
1990- M.A. in history of religions at the Institute of Religious Studies, the Jagiellonian University.
Appointments
1998 – present
Adjunct/lecturer in Department of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University
1991 - 1998
Assistant of professor in the Research Center on Jewish History and Culture in Poland at the Jagiellonian University.
2001- present
Tutor in the Academia Artes Liberales, Warsaw, Poland
1999 - 2000
Head of the division of Jewish Culture in the Research Center on Jewish History and Culture in Poland at the Jagiellonian University
1998 - 1999
Head of the division of Bibliography in the Research Center on Jewish History and Culture in Poland at the Jagiellonian University
Fellowships and grants
2004, June – Visiting Lecturer Fellowship, Universitaet Potsdam – Erasmus/Socrates Program.
2003, November – The Loewenstein-Wiener Fellow of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH (USA).
2003, July – DAAD research grant at University of Tuebingen (Germany).
2002 – Co-editor of “The YIVO Encyclopedia: Jews in Eastern Europe” – YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York (USA) – in preparation..
2002/2003 – The Fulbright Foundation Fellow at Brandeis University, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (USA)
2001 - Visiting Professor Fellowship at the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London (UK) – with series of lectures.
2001 September – study visit at the Institute fuer Judaistik, Freie Universitaet Berlin, (Germany) – inter-university exchange.
1999 - KBN (Polish National Committee for Scholarly Research) grant for the international conference on: Jewish Spirituality in Poland (26-28.04.1999).
1995-1997 - grant of the Research Support Scheme of the Higher Education Support Programme, The Central European University in Prague (Czech Republic) for research on: Sabbateanism and Frankism in Polish Historiography.
1996 - scholarship of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel for taking part in the summer course of modern Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).
1996 (Summer) - Scholarship of Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) for research in archives and libraries in Israel, related to the doctoral dissertation.
1994 - scholarship of Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) and the Batory Foundation (Warsaw) for taking part in the summer course of modern Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1993 (Fall) - three months DAAD scholarship for research in Institut für Judaistik Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).
Membership
The Commission for the Jewish History and Culture at the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU), Kraków, Poland
The Polish Association for Jewish Studies, Kraków, Poland
The European Association for Jewish Studies, Oxford UK
Recent projects:
Research project on: The emergence of Reform trends in Judaism in Polish lands and the United States during the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century : the case of rabbi Marcus (Mordecai) Jastrow (1829-1903).
Coordinator of an international conference “700 Years of Jewish Presence in Krakow” organized by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and Department of Jewish Studies of Jagiellonian University: Krakow 26-28 September, 2005.
Lecturer at the summer programs at the Jagiellonian University for students of: Michigan State University and Northwestern University: Krakow, July 2005.
Scholarly interest:
Religious history of Jews in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe.
Jewish Messianism – Sabbateanism and Frankism.
History of Modern Judaism
History of Judaism in the US.
Honors and Awards:
1991 - Award in the competition of MA thesis on Jewish Studies organized by Embassy of Israel in Warsaw and Jewish Historical Institute in Poland
1998 - Jagiellonian University Rector Prize for the doctoral thesis.
Conference presentation and guest lectures (selected):
2005, June, Krakow Jagiellonian University, Seminar for the US Army Cadets on: Jewish Culture and Religion in Poland.
2004, October 21-22 – Paris, Institut catholique de Paris, La Pologne religieuse aux XIX°- XX° siècles dans le contexte international - presentation.
2004 June, Krakow Jagiellonian University, Seminar for the US Army Cadets on: Jewish Culture and Religion in Poland.
2003, November 16, Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia (USA), The International Conference on: Marcus Jastrow and the Rabbinic Lexicography, presentation: Marcus Jastrow’s European Background and the Critical Reception of Jastrow’s Dictionary.
2001, June 19-21, Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London (UK), The International Conference on: The Shtetl, presentation: Inter-religious contacts in the Shtetlekh.
2000, December 1-2, theconference on : Duchowość dzisiaj – kontekst religijny i kulturowy, presentation: Judaizm wobec wyzwania współczesnej duchowości. W poszukiwaniu duchowości żydowskiej (Judaism and modern sprituality).
Guest lectures (selected):
2005, May, Polish-Israeli Students’ Forum, Kraków – Jews and Judaism in contemporary Poland
2004, July, Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków - Origins of Hasidism. From the history of Jewish mysticism in Poland
2004, October, Museum “Old Synagogue”, Krakow – Hasidism and Jewish Spirituality.
2004, May, Polish-Israeli Students’ Forum, Kraków – Jews in Poland after 1945.
2003, January, McGill University, Montreal, (Canada) – Rabbi Marcus Jastrow – Leader of Progressive Judaism in Poland and the USA.
2002, November, Haverford College, Haverford, PA. (USA) – Jewish Studies in Contemporary Poland.
2002, October, American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies, Cambridge MA. (USA) – Frankism in Polish Culture.
2002, April, Univerzity Komenskeho, Bratislava, (Slovakia) – História judaizmu w Pol’sku.
Copyright © 1998–2002 University of Rochester
Last modified: 01/16/06
|
