Holli Levitsky is the founder and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Bellarmine Collage of Liberal Arts. She sits on the Executive Board of the Western Jewish Studies Association, the Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Association, and the California State University, Long Beach Jewish Studies Program.

In 2001-2002, Dr. Levitsky held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Literature in Poland, teaching “American Culture and the Holocaust” and “Literature of Jews in Poland” at the University of Warsaw and lecturing on her research at universities across Eastern Europe. In 2007, Poland’s Institute for National Remembrance invited her to testify on behalf of her research on Polish Jews during the Communist era.

Levitsky has published in major peer-reviewed journals on these topics, and others, including POLIN: A Journal of Polish Jewish Studies and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her work on Polish and American Jewish writers appears in book chapters and other publications including reviews for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, American Jewish History, and Polish Journal for American Studies.

Dr. Levitsky regularly offers lectures and conducts workshops on Holocaust pedagogy to secondary school and college educators. Presented in partnership with Jewish and American Holocaust Literature Symposium.