Prof. David Engel is the Maurice Greenberg Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies and Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University. He is also past editor in chief of the journal Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jews. Engel received his Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1979, and completed postdoctoral study at Hebrew University’s Division of Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary Jewry in Jerusalem. He is a Fellow of the Diaspora Research Institute at Tel Aviv University; and a member of the Carnegie Commission on Ethics and International Affairs and the Commission on Polish-Jewish Relations since 2002. In 1986 – 87 Engel received Outstanding Lecturer honors at Tel Aviv University; in 1996 he was given the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at New York University.
