Barbara Krawcowicz

Barbara Krawcowicz, PhD received a Ph.D. 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. Dr. Krawcowicz’s dissertation advisor was Professor Shaul Magid of Indiana University Bloomington, where she received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies in the summer of 2013. 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.