Contact detail

michal.galas@uj.edu.pl    

Position

Department of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University

About

Michał T. Galas received his education at the Jagiellonian University: 1997 PhD in Comparative Religion, 2008 Habilitation in History with a specialization Jewish History and Culture. He is the Head of the Division of History of Judaism and Jewish Literatures at the Department of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University and the secretary of the Commission on the History and Culture of the Jews at the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU).  
He lectured at many universities in Poland and abroad e.g. : University of Rochester NY (2006), Potsdam Universitaet (2004), University College London (2001,2010), McGill University  (Canada, 2003), Haverford College (USA 2002).

He has been awarded several fellowships: Lanckoroński Foundation - London (2010), The Loewenstein-Wiener Fellow of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH (2003); Fulbright Foundation, Brandeis University (2002-2003); DAAD, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Universitaet Tuebingen (1993, 2003); Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London (2001), Central European University w Prague (1996-1997). His scholarly interests concentrate on modern Judaism and history of Jewish religious heritage in Poland, particularly Jewish mystical and messianic movements. His recent research is dedicated to the influence of progressive Judaism in Poland till the Holocaust.

Selected publications

• Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 23: Jews in Krakow, edited by Michał Galas and Antony Polonsky, Oxford - Portland OR, 2011.
• Żydzi szczekocińscy. Osoby, miejsca, pamięć, (Jews of Szczekociny. Personalities, places and memory), edited by Michał Galas and Mirosław Skrzypczyk, „Austeria", Kraków – Budapeszt 2008.
• Rabin Markus Jastrow i jego wizja reformy judaizmu. Studium z dziejów judaizmu w drugiej połowie XIX wieku (Rabbi Marcus Jastrow and His Vision of Reform of Judaism. Studies from the History of Judaism in the Second half of the 19th Century), „Austeria", Krakow 2007.
• „Światło i słońce". Studia z dziejów chasydyzmu ("Light and the Sun". Studies from the History of Hasidism),  edited by Michał Galas, „Austeria", Kraków 2006.

Courses taught at CES

Jewish Religion, Culture and Society in CEE before 1939