Barbara Krawcowicz

Dr. Barbara Krawcowicz received a PhD and an MA in philosophy from Warsaw University in Poland. Apart from her native Polish and fluent English, Dr. Krawcowicz has language skills in Hebrew, Yiddish, and German. Her current dissertation project, tentatively entitled “Covenantal Theodicy among Haredi and Modern Jewish Thinkers during and after the Holocaust,” analyzes wartime and post-war Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust and aims at presenting two distinct ways in which traditional covenantal theodicy functioned in the context of this catastrophe.  During the academic year 2008-2009, which she spent as a Sosland Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Dr. Krawcowicz worked closely with Professor Gershon Greenberg of American University.