He is a member of the advisory boards of the Shoah Center in Manchester, the permanent exhibition on the Holocaust at the Imperial War Museum in London, and the Aegis Trust, as well as a delegate to the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust. His interests include Polish-Jewish relations, museum studies, culture, and research into the remains of Jewish landmarks and monuments in southern Poland. Since 1992, he has been a guest lecturer at the sociology institute of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. From 1990 to 1993, he was a senior researcher at the Research Center for Jewish Culture and History in Poland. Since 1989, he has been a member of the board and honorary treasurer of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies in Oxford. He is director of a joint British-German-Polish European project on Civil Society and Social Change in Europe after Auschwitz.

He has participated in numerous projects realized in cooperation between the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University, the University of Oldenburg, the Jagiellonian University, and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Since 1990, he has also been a member of the board of the Center for Information, Meetings, Dialogue, and Education in Oświęcim. He has been a member of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation since 1998. He was a member of the honorary committee of the international conference commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. He organized and chaired four international conferences on the future of Oświęcim. He has vast experience as a lecturer. He is a member of many professional and learned societies, including the Association of Jewish Studies and the Social Scientific Study of Jewry.

He was a member of the Council of the British Association for Jewish Research in 1992-1995. Since 1979, he has been editor in chief of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. At present, he is an associate professor at the Department of Jewish Social Studies at the Oxford Center for Jewish Studies and a lecturer at the Hebrew Center at the Institute of Social Anthropology at Oxford University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, books, and brochures, including The Future of Auschwitz: Some personal Reflections. In 1999, he was awarded the Gold Cross of Service by the President of the Republic of Poland for his contribution to the Polish-Jewish dialogue and Polish-Jewish relations.

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