We look forward to host Prof. Moshe Shner and discuss the current educational, political and economic situation in Israel. 

Prof. Moshe Shner, PhD will be our visiting professor in the academic year 2021/2022.

Biographical note:

Professor Moshe Shner got his Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in NYC, where he studied the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish identity.

His academic teaching includes topics in Jewish philosophy, Jewish education, Holocaust Education, and the challenge of modern identities, interfaith dialogues, and multicultural education in a post-Holocaust world.

A special place in his writings and teaching is dedicated to the legacy of the Polish-Jewish educators Janusz Korczak and Itzhak Katzenelson.

Besides Judaic studies, Shner deals with cross cultural Global Education programs, online pedagogy and the challenge of the Internet World to traditional teaching-learning paradigms.

Besides numerous articles and chapters in academic and popular platforms, Shner published In the Beginning there was the Holocaust: a Spiritual Journey into the Abysses of History. Jerusalem: Magness Press (2013), Born Virtual: Free Human Spirit in a Borderless World. Tel Aviv: Mofet Institute (2012), and Korczak and Katzenelson – two Educators in the Abysses of History. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University School of Education (2011).

Prof. Shner is also a board member of the Ghetto Fighters' House Holocaust Museum.

Latest book:

Janusz Korczak and Yitzhak Katzenelson, Two Educators in the Abysses of History Requires Authentication, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110683950

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110683950/html