There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

Additionally he still holds a position as Chair of the Holocaust Commission of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture after previously serving on the United States Holocaust Museum's Academic Committee for five years as their Chair. 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period (Cambridge University Press 2006)
Obliged by Memory: Literature Religion Ethics (Syracuse University Press 2006)
Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses During and After the Holocaust (Oxford University Press 2007)
The shtetl: new evaluations (New York University Press 2007)


Awards
1984 - National Jewish Book Award for Post-Holocaust Dialogues
1994 - "Outstanding book in philosophy and theology" (American Association of University PubliSteven T. Katzrs) for The Holocaust in Historical Context
1999 - Lucas Prize (University of Tübingen)
2007 - National Jewish Book Award for Volume IV of The Cambridge History of Judaism The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period
2007 - National Jewish Book Award runner-up for Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses During and After the Holocaust. 1 (Oxford University Press 1994)
American rabbi : the life and thought of Jacob B.

Katz is the editor of Modern Judaism an academic quarterly. D.