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The ICJS Honors the Late Dr. Michael Signer
Posted January 17, 2009
On Saturday, January 10, 2009, Dr. Michael Signer crossed the great divide. Many knew Michael as a brilliant professor who could bring the wisdom and beauty of the Jewish and Christian traditions into an invigorating conversation. As the Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture in the Theology Department at the University of Notre Dame, he had a very rare ability to retrieve the riches of our medieval ancestors and to illuminate the complexities of the Jewish-Christian encounter in our own day. He insisted that the interplay of Christians and Jews, even in strained circumstances, could yield promising insights for our children and ourselves. Michael always found grounds for hope. In his living and in his dying, despair was an option that he resolutely refused to entertain.
