University / institution contact details
Position: Honorary Research Fellow
University of Manchester
Religions and Theology/Centre for Jewish Studies
CENTRE FOR JEWISH STUDIES, Department of Religions and Theology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL. Tel: +44 (0)161 2753614. Email: cjs@manchester.ac.uk
http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/
Second university / institution contact details
Position: Post Doctoral Researcher / Research Associate
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)
Rabensteig 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43-1-890-15-14-0
Fax: +43-1-253-30-33-4069
E-Mail: office@vwi.ac.at
https://www.vwi.ac.at/index.php/en/
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Modern: TR
3. Religion and Religious Movements: TR
31: Comparative Religion: R
5. Rabbinic Literature: TR
40: Modern: R
41: Jewish law (including Halachic studies, Responsa): R
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
65: Jews in the United States: R
68: Jewish identity and assimilation: R
Anti-Semitism: TR
Holocaust Studies: TR
71: Interfaith studies (including Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish-Muslim relations): R
Description
Ion Popa is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester, UK. He received his MA (2009) and PhD (2014) from the University of Manchester, and over the years has been the recipient of several prestigious fellowships and awards, amongst them: the Fortunoff Research Fellowship at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (2019), the Odobleja Fellowship at New Europe College, Bucharest (2018-2019), the Saul Kagan Claims Conference Advanced Shoah Studies Doctoral (2010-2012) and Postdoctoral (2016-2018) Fellowships, New York, the DRS Postdoctoral Fellowship at Freie Universität, Berlin (2015-2016), the Yad Vashem Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-2015) Jerusalem, and the Tziporah Wiesel Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC (2013). Dr. Popa is the author of The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2017), which was awarded the Yad Vashem 2018 Book Prize for Holocaust Research. He is a specialist on Modern/Contemporary European History, with a focus on the Holocaust, religion and politics, and inter-ethnic/inter-religious relations, with a particular attention to Jewish-Christian relations.
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