Steven T. Katz, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab), D.H.L. (honoris causa), B.D. (Cantab), is Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. from the Universtiy of Cambridge [England] in 1972. Prior to coming to Boston he was Professor of Near Eastern Studies (Judaica) at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, where he was Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies from 1985-1989 and Director of the Jewish Studies Program 1985-1989. In addition to his regular teaching appointments at Dartmouth College (1972-1984) and Cornell University (1984-1996) he has been a visiting professor at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and in 1989-90 was the Meyerhoff Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a visiting University Professor at Yeshiva University (1995-96), and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from 1981-1984. His many publictions include: Jewish Philosophers (1975); Jewish Ideas and Concepts (1977); Post-Holocaust Dialogues, which won the national Jewish Book Award in 1984; Historicism, the Holocaust and Zionism (1992); and the multi-volume study entitled The Holocaust in Historical Context, vol. 1 of which appeared in 1994, and was selected as “the outstanding book in philosophy and theology” for that year by the American Association of University Publishers. Katz has also contributed to and edited three important books on mysticism: Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (1978), Mysticism and Religious Traditions (1983) and Mysticism and Language (1992). He is the editor of the prize winning journal Modern Judaism, and had served on the editorial team of The Cambridge History of Judaism and The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought. He has published over 60 articles in scholarly journals in the fields of Judaica, Holocaust Studies, philosophy of religion, and comparative mysticism. Recently he was notified that the Universtiy of Tubingen has awarded him its prestigious Lucas Prize for 1999. Past winners of this award include the Dalai Lama and Sir Karl Popper.