Adam Teller January 2019

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Professor, Program in Jewish Studies and Dept. of History, Brown University

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3. Education 1981-84 Oxford University: BA (MA) in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Studies. 1985-90 Hebrew University, Jerusalem: MA in Modern Jewish History. Specialty: Polish Jewish History. Thesis topic: “The Jewish Quarter of Poznań and Its Population in the First Half of the 17th Century”. Graduated Summa Cum Laude. 1986-87 Jagiellonian University, Kraków: Participation in Summer Schools of the Polish Language 1990-97 Hebrew University, Jerusalem: PhD in Modern Jewish History. Thesis title: “The Economic Role and Social Status of the Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates in Lithuania in the 18th Century.” Director: Prof. Jacob Goldberg. Graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Languages: English, Hebrew, Polish, French, Yiddish, German, Latin, Russian.

4. Professional Appointments 1990-95 Teaching Assistant in the Dept of Jewish History, Hebrew University 1995-8 Junior Lecturer, Dept of Jewish History, University of Haifa 1999-2002 Lecturer, Dept of Jewish History, University of Haifa 2002-2003 Fellowship at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 2003-2010 Senior Lecturer with tenure (USA equivalent: Associate Professor), Dept of Jewish History, University of Haifa 2004 Fellowship at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig 2008-2009 Fellowship at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 2010 Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University 2010 - 2017 Associate Professor, Program in Judaic Studies and Dept. of History, Brown University 2017 - Professor, Program in Judaic Studies and Dept. of History, Brown University

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4.a. State Honors 2015 Granted the Order of Merit for Contribution to Polish Culture, Zasłużony dla Kultury Polskiej, by the Government of Poland

5. Publications a. Books/Monographs - Guide to the Sources for the History of the Jews in Poland in the Central Archives, edited volume, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem 1988. 98pp.

- Studies on the History of the Jews in Old Poland: Scripta Hierosolomitana 38, edited volume, Magnes Press: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1998. 332pp.

- The Jewish Quarter of Poznań and its Population in the First Half of the 17th Century (Hebrew), Magnes Press: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2003. 134pp.

- Money, Power, and Influence: The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates in 18th Century Lithuania (Hebrew), Merkaz Zalman Shazar: Jerusalem 2005, 296pp.

- The YIVO Encyclopedia of the Jews of Eastern Europe, I-II, New Haven 2008 (Editor- in-Chief, Gershon D. Hundert) Editor of two sections: Poland-Lithuania, 1000-1795; Economic History

- Borders and Boundaries in the History of the Jews in Old Poland, Polin vol. 22, edited with Magdalena Teter, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization: Oxford-Portland 2010

- Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History, edited volume (with Rebecca Kobrin), The University of Pennsylvania Press, 355pp. Review: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=48468

- Money, Power, and Influence in 18th Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates (revised and updated English version), Stanford University Press, 310pp. Review: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yz6s729xsa1mxzw/Kory--2017-The_Economic_History_Review.pdf?dl=0 Review: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5pcjh0x1iyacwi/Wodzinski_recensja.pdf?dl=0 Review: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z613jimri4m5ua3/Guesnet_Slavic_Review.pdf?dl=0

Under Contract - The Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Ransom and Relief from Amsterdam to Istanbul, Princeton University Press

Teller CV Page 2 of 25 b. Chapters in Books - “Antisemitism and Antipolonism in the Jewish Historiography of Polish Jewry in Recent Years”, in A. Krol et al. (eds.), Stereotypy narodowosciowe w Europie XX wieku, Warszawa 1992, pp. 62-71

- “Ludność i kodeks obyczajowy w dzielnicy żydowskiej w Poznaniu w XVII wieku”, in: J. Topolski, K. Modelski (eds.), Dzieje Żydów w Wielkopolsce, Poznań 1995, pp. 57-70

- “The Living Conditions of Polish Jewry: Jews, Poles, and the Jewish Quarter of Poznań in the 17th Century” (Hebrew), in B.-Z. Kedar (ed.), Popular and Elite Culture in Jewish and General History, The Israel Historical Society: Jerusalem 1996, pp. 197-208

- “Jewish Economic Activity in the Polish Commonwealth in the Second Half of the Seventeenth and in the Eighteenth Centuries”’ in: I. Bartal, I. Gutman (eds.), Broken Chain: Polish Jewry Through the Ages (Hebrew), I, Merkaz Zalman Shazar: Jerusalem 1997, pp. 209-224

- “Jüdische Gemeinden in polnischen Feudalsystem”, in: J. Hessing (ed.), Jüdischer Almanach 1998, Frankfurt a.M. 1997, pp. 87-99

- Cohen, Shabetai ben Meir - Hannover, Natan Neta - Horowitz, Abraham - Horowitz, Yesha’yahu - Koidonover, Aharon Shmuel - Koidonover, Tsvi Hirsch - Landau, Yehezki’el - Lunchitz, Efraim Shlomo - Pollack, Ya’akov - Rapoport, Haim ben Simha - Shachna, Shalom in: The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (eds. R.J. Zvi Werblowski, G. Wigoder), New York: Oxford University Press 1997

- “Radziwill, Rabinowicz, and the Rabbi of Swierz: The Magnates’ Attitude Towards Jewish Regional Autonomy in 18th Century Poland-Lithuania”, Scripta Hierosolomitana 38 (1998), pp. 248-278

- “The Jewish Lower Classes in Late 18th Century Polish Lithuania”, in: M. Heyd, O. Heilbronner (eds.), Varieties of Multiculturalism in Modern European History, Jerusalem: Hebrew University 1998, pp. 73-83. With J. Goldberg

- “The Gaon of Vilnius and the Communal Rabbinate in the 18th Century”, in: I. Lampertas (ed.), The Gaon of Vilnius and the Annals of Jewish Culture, Vilnius 1998, pp. 170-181

Teller CV Page 3 of 25 - “Radziwiłłowie a Żydzi w czasach saskich”, in A. Link-Lenczowski, M. Markiewicz (eds.), Rzeczpospolita wielu narodów i jej tradycje, Kraków 1999, pp. 149-161

- “General Arenda and the General Arendarz in Eighteenth Century Lithuania” (Hebrew), in: R. Aaronsohn and S. Stampfer (eds.), Jewish Entrepreneurship in Modern Times: East Europe and Eretz Israel, Magnes Press: Jerusalem 2000, pp. 48-78

- “Jüdische Unterschichten in polnisch-litauische Stadtsgesellschaft des 18 Jahrhunderts” in: S. Jersch-Wensel (ed.), Juden und Armut in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Köln: Bohlau 2000, pp. 109-121

- “The Laicization of Jewish Society: The Polish Communal Rabbinate in the 16th Century”, in: M. Graetz (ed.), Schöpferische Momente des europäischen Judentums, 16.- 18. Jh, Heidelberg: C. Winter 2000, pp. 333-349

- “’Zwierczadło Korony Polskiej’ by Sebastian Miczyński: Introductory Remarks” (Hebrew), in: E. Reiner (ed.), Kroke-Kazimierz-Cracow: Studies in the History of Cracow Jewry, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University 2001, pp. 329-337

- “Przedmowa”, in: H. Gmiterek (ed.), Materiały źrodłowe do dziejów Żydów w księgach grodzkich lubelskich z doby panowania Augusta II Sasa, 1697-1733, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie Skłodowskiej, Lublin 2001, pp. 19-34.

- “Jewish Society in Old Poland: Nathan Neta Hannover”, in: I. Bartal, I. Gutman (eds.), Broken Chain: Polish Jewry through the Ages (Hebrew), II, Jerualem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2001, pp. 25-26

- “The Magnate Regime in Poland-Lithuania as Viewed by Solomon Maimon”, in: I. Bartal, I. Gutman (eds.), Broken Chain: Polish Jewry through the Ages (Hebrew), II, Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2001, pp. 441-442

- “Rabbis Without a Function? The Polish Rabbinate and the Council of Four Lands in the 16th-18th Centuries” in: Jewish Religious Leadership: Image and Reality, ed. J. Wertheimer, Jewish Theological Seminar 2004, I, 371-400

- “Der Blick nach Osten. Rechtlicher Status und Rechtssystem der polnischen Judenheit vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert”, in: A. Gotzmann, S. Wendehorst (eds.), Juden im Recht. Neue Zugänge zur Rechtsgeschichte der Juden im Alten Reich, Berlin 2007 (Beihefte der Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 39), pp. 397-413

- “The Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648-1649 and the Creation of a Polish-Jewish Consciousness”, in: B. Nathans, G. Safran (eds.), Culture Front: Eastern European Jews and their Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press 2008, pp. 17-45

Teller CV Page 4 of 25 - Economic Life (10,000 words) - Jewish Councils (3,000 words) - Rabbinate, pre-1800 (3,000 words) - Trade (3,000 words) - Gurland, Haim Jonas (500 words) - Hannover, Natan Note (500 words) - Ickowicz Brothers (500 words) - Lejbowicz, Hirsz (500 words) - Slutzk (500 words) refereed entries in: The YIVO Encyclopedia of the Jews of Eastern Europe, I-II, New Haven 2008 (Editor-in-Chief, Gershon D. Hundert)

- “Gezeirot Tah-Tat as a Gendered Experience: Jewish Women Victims and Refugees, 1648-1683,” in: Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrman, Adam Shear, and Elhanan Reiner (eds.), Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati 2014, pp. 39-49

- “A Portrait in Ambivalence: The Case of Natan Hanover and his Chronicle, Yeven metsulah,” in: A. Glaser (ed.), Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Cossack Uprising, Stanford 2015, pp. 23-35

- “Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History,” in: R. Kobrin, A. Teller (eds.), Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History, Philadelphia 2015, pp. 1-24, 259-264

- “Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Economy, 1453-1795”, in: J. Karp, A. Sutcliffe (eds.), The Cambridge History of Early Modern Judaism. Volume Seven: The Early Modern World, 1500-1815, Cambridge 2017, pp. 576-606

- “Something Old, Something New: Creating the Narrative for the Two Early Modern Galleries in the POLIN Museum” New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands, Academic Studies Press 2018, pp, 1-12

Accepted for Publication

- “Jewish Autonomy in Early Modern Poland” Introduction (6,000 words) and 50 Annotated Sources Jewish Autonomy in Poland from the Middle Ages until the Holocaust (Brill Publishers, Leiden-Boston)

- “‘To Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles’: Violent Responses by Jews during the 1648 Chmielnicki Uprising and their Historical Significance” (Hebrew) Festchrift for Prof. Israel Bartal (Shazar Center, Jerusalem)

Teller CV Page 5 of 25 c. Refereed Journal Articles - “Solomon Maimon’s Autobiography: A Re-evaluation” (Hebrew), Gal-Ed 14 (1994), pp. 13-22

- “The Legal Status of the Jews on the Magnate Estates of Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century”, Gal-Ed 15-16 (1997), pp. 41-63

- “The Tradition from Słuck about the Early Days of the Baal-Shem-Tov” (Hebrew), Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 15 (1999), pp. 15-38

-“Laicyzacja wcześnonowożytnego społeczeństwa żydowskiego: rozwój rabinatu w Polsce XVI wieku”, Kwartalnik Historyczny 3/2003, pp.322-343

- “The Shtetl as an Arena for Polish-Jewish Integration in the 18th Century”, Polin 17 (2004), pp. 25-40

- “Hasidism and the Challenge of Geography: The Polish Background to the Spread of the Hasidic Movement” in: AJS Review 30 (2006), pp. 1-29

- “In the Land of their Enemies? On the Duality of Jewish Existence in 18th Century Poland” Polin 19 (2007), pp. 431-446

- "Telling the Difference: Some Comparative Perspectives on the Jews' Legal Status in Poland and in the Holy Roman Empire" Polin 22 (2010), pp. 109-141

- “Introduction: Social and Cultural Borders in the Historiography of Pre-Modern Polish Jewry” Polin 22 (2010), pp. 3-46 (With Magda Teter)

- “Tradition and Crisis? Eighteenth Century Attitudes towards the Rabbinate in Poland- Lithuania,” Jewish Social Studies 17/3 (2011): 1-39

- “Polish-Jewish Relations: Historical Research and Social Significance: On the Legacy of Jacob Goldberg,” Studia Judaica 15/1-2 [29-39] (2012): 27-47 [published in Kraków, Poland]

- “Culture and Money: The Economic Dimension of Jewish History And What It Can Teach Us,” Jewish Quarterly Review 104/2 (2014): 278-287

- “Revisiting Baron’s ‘Lachrymose Conception’: The Meanings of Violence in Jewish History,” AJS Review 38/2 (2014): 431-439

Accepted for Publication - “The Wars in Eastern Europe, The Jews of Jerusalem, and the Rise of Sabbatheanism: The Shaping of the Jewish World in the Seventeenth Century,” Jewish History

Teller CV Page 6 of 25 In Preparation - “Print, Power, and Prestige: The Polish-Lithuanian Rabbinate and the Book in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” for submission to Past and Present (7,500 words not including notes)

d. Non-Refereed Articles - “Jews and Poles on Polish Jews: Recently Published Research on the History of the Jews in Poland”, Jewish Studies 34 (1994), pp. 77-84

- Chapter: “The Golden Age” (9,000 words) in: Antony Polonsky (ed.), Guide to the Museum for the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw [co-author: Prof. Igor Kąkolewski]

- Chapter: “Small Town Life” (9,000 words) in: Antony Polonsky (ed.), Guide to the Museum for the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw

- “History’s Economic Underpinning” In: http://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2016/10/historys-economic-underpinning.html

e. Book Reviews - Z. Guldon & K. Krzystanek, Ludność żydowska w miastach lewobrzeżnej części województwa sandomirskiego w XVI-XVIII wieku. Zion 46 (1992), pp. 451-454 (Hebrew)

- M.J. Rosman, The Lords’ Jews. Magnate Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Eighteenth Century. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 40 (1992), pp. 274-276

- H. Levine, Economic Origins of Antisemitism: Poland and its Jews in the Early Modern Period. Kwartalnik Historyczny 99 (1992), pp. 147-150 (Polish)

- G.D. Hundert, The Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century. The Polish Review 38 (1993), pp. 98-101

- J. Raba, Between Remembrance and Denial: The Fate of the Jews in the Wars of the Polish Commonwealth as shown in Contemporary Writings and Historical Research. Gal-Ed 14, pp. 111-115 (Hebrew)

- A. Michałowska, Między demokracją a oligarchią: Władze gmin żydowskich w Poznaniu i Swarzędzu. Kwartalnik Historyczny 109 (2002), pp. 152-155

Teller CV Page 7 of 25 - N. Sinkoff, Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, Mendele Review 10.004 (2006) http://yiddish.haifa.ac.il/tmr/tmr10/tmr10004.htm

- T. Hubka, Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth Century Polish Community, AJS Review 31 (2007), pp. 409-412

- Leonard S. Levin, Seeing with Both Eyes: Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-Jewish Renaissance, East European Jewish Affairs 40 (2010): 93-95

- Gershon D, Hundert, Ge’ula ketana u-me’at kavod: Ha-hevra ha-yehudit ba-Polin-Lita ba-me’ah ha-shmone-‘esre, Zion 75 (2010): 358-363 (Hebrew)

- Magda Teter, Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2011, American Historical Review 117/2 (2012): 632-633

- David Frick, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth- Century Wilno: Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2013. Journal of Modern History 87/2 (2015): 477-479

-Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe. Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2014. 431pp. Galed: Journal for the History and Culture of Polish Jews 25 (2017): 213-215 [Hebrew].

-Hasia R. Diner. Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way. New Haven-London: Yale University Press. 2015. 247pp. The American Historical Review 122/2 (2017): 489

In Press - David Fishman. The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis. Lebanon NH: University Press of New England. 2017. 322pp. Slavic Review f. Abstracts N/A

g. Invited Lectures 2000 Israel Academy of Sciences Lecture: “The Interpretation of Space: The Polish Background to the Spread of the Hasidic Movement”

2002 Israel Academy of Sciences Lecture: “The Development of the Jewish Community Privilege in Eastern Europe, 1388-1795” 2002 Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Teller CV Page 8 of 25 Lecture: “Jewish Society and Culture in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania: A Subaltern Perspective” " Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, Lecture: “The Interpretation of Space: The Polish Background to the Spread of the Hasidic Movement” 2006 Polish Academy of Science: Historical Section, Warsaw Lecture: “Presenting the History of the Jews in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth: Issues of Interpretation” “ University of Haifa, Israel Lecture: “Social and Economic Networks in the Memoirs of Glikl Hamel” 2008 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Lecture: “"Telling the Difference: Comparative Perspectives on the Jews` Legal Status in Early Modern Central and East-Central Europe" 2009 Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Lecture: “Before Rothschild: Jewish Businessmen in Eighteenth Century Eastern Europe” “ Centro Primo Levi, Center for Jewish History, New York Lecture: “The Woman’s Economic World in Early Modern Poland- Lithuanua” “ Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania Lecture: “Reshaping the Jewish World: Economic, Social, and Cultural Aspects of the Ashkenazic Refugee Crisis in the Mid-17th Century” “ The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York. Lecture: “Before and After the Flood: The Polish-Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1648-1683 2010 - Brandeis University, Waltham Mass. Lecture: Discovering the Jewish World: The Polish-Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1648-1683

2011 - Hebrew College, Boston. Lecture: “No Way In, No Way Out: The Jews and the Polish State, 1918-1939”

“ - Brandeis University, Waltham Mass. Lecture: “‘Polin’ and the Revival of Polish-Jewish History: Past Achievements and Future Prospects”

“ - Yale University, New Haven Lecture: “Tradition and Crisis? Eighteenth Century Attitudes towards the Rabbinate in Poland-Lithuania”

2012 - University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Lecture: The Polish-Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1648-1683

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“ - Centre for Jewish History, New York Lecture: Jewish World in Action: Facing the Polish-Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1648-1683

2013 - Yeshiva University, New York Lecture: Print, Power, and Prestige: The Polish-Lithuanian Rabbinate and the Book in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

“ - Tel Aviv University, Israel Seminar: Before the Creation of Galicia: Tensions among the Jewish Communities of Red Ruthenia

“ - Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania Paper: Wanda and the Jewish Maidens: Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Seventeenth Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

2014 - The Davis Center, Princeton University Lecture: From Amsterdam to Istanbul: The Polish-Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1648-1683

“ - Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, University of Leipzig Lecture: Creating an Economic Network of Trans-Regional Cooperation: The Polish-Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1648–1683

2015 - The Institute for Advanced Study, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research Seminar on Galicia Paper: Devarim she-kisuyam yafeh mi-giluyam: From Agnon’s Story to the Hidden Connections between Jewish and Polish Culture

“ - Tel Aviv University International Workshop: “Re-Conceiving Key Terms in the Study of Anti- Semitism” Presentation: Economic Anti-Semitism

2016 - Jewish History Colloquium, Yale University From Amsterdam to Istanbul: The Polish Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1648-1683

“ - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Violent Responses by Jews during the 1648 Uprising and their Historical Significance” (Hebrew)

Teller CV Page 10 of 25 2017 - Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, In the Wake of Catastrophe: Jewish Refugees following the Khmelnytsky Uprising

- Middle East Studies, Seminar Series, Brown University Captives, Slaves, and Refugees: Ransom and Resettlement of Jews in the Mediterranean World after 1648

“ - Library Lecture Series: The Holocaust: History and Aftermath, Brown University The Power of Memory: Thinking about the Holocaust in Poland from 1945 until Today

h. Papers Read 1992 Conference in Warsaw: National Stereotypes in 20th Century Europe. Lecture: “Antisemitism and Antipolonism in the Jewish Historiography of Polish Jewry in Recent Years”

Conference in Poznań: History of the Jews in the Great Poland Region. Lecture: “Ludność i kodeks obyczajowy w dzielnicy żydowskiej w Poznaniu w XVII wieku” (Population and Customs in the Jewish Quarter of Poznan in the 17th Century)

Conference at the Israel Historical Society, Jerusalem: Popular and Elite Culture in Jewish and General History. Lecture: “The Living Conditions of Polish Jewry: Jews, Poles and the Jewish Quarter of Poznań in the 17th Century” (Hebrew)

1993 Conference in Tel Aviv: The Jews in Pre-partition Poland Lecture: “Solomon Maimon’s Autobiography: A Re- evaluation” (Hebrew)

1994 Conference in Jerusalem: New Perspectives in Early Hasidism Lecture: “The Tradition from Słuck about the Early Days of the Baal-Shem-Tov” (Hebrew)

1995 Conference in Tel Aviv: Jewish Autonomy in Poland Lecture: “Kahal and Lessees: A New Social Elite in 18th Century Polish Jewry?” (Hebrew)

Teller CV Page 11 of 25 Conference in Jerusalem: The History of Jewish Entrepreneurship Lecture: “The ‘General Lease’ and the ‘General Lessee’ in 18th Century Lithuania” (Hebrew)

Workshop of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Jerusalem: The Integration of Jewish Subjects in the Academic Teaching of European History

1996 Conference in Leipzig: Erfahrungen jüdischer Existenz im Zeitalter der Aufklärung: Mittel- und Osteuropa im Vergleich Lecture: “The Legal Status of the Jews on the Magnate Estates of Poland-Lithuania: Some Comparative Aspects”

1997 Conference in Vilnius: The Gaon of Vilnius and the Annals of Jewish Culture Lecture: “The Gaon of Vilna and the Communal Rabbinate in 18th Century Poland-Lithuania”

Conference in Krakow: 300 lat od początku unii polsko- saskiej. Rzeczpospolita wielu narodów i jej tradycje Lecture: “The Radziwiłłs and the Jews during the Polish- Saxon Union”

Conference in Leipzig: Juden und Armut Lecture: “The Jewish Poor and the Jewish Crowd in 18th Century Poland”

1998 Conference in Bar-Ilan: Gezeirot Tah-Tat. Eastern European Jewry in 1648-49: Context and Consequences Lecture: “‘Yeven Metsulah’ and the Collective Memory of Eastern European Jews”

1999 Conference in Heidelberg: Schöpferische Momente des europäischen Judentums, 16-18 Jh. Lecture: “The Laicization of Jewish Society: The Polish Communal Rabbinate in the 16th Century”

2000 Conference in Haifa: The Jewish Community: New Perspectives Lecture: “A Failed Ideal: The Communal Rabbinate in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania”

2001 Conference in London: The Shtetl

Teller CV Page 12 of 25 Lecture: “The Shtetl as an Arena for Polish-Jewish Integration in the 18th Century”

The Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem Lecture: “Rabbis Without a Function? On Relations Between the Polish Rabbinate and the Council of Four Lands”

The Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Washington Lecture: “The Interpretation of Space: The Polish Background to the Spread of the Hasidic Movement”

2001 Conference in Warsaw: Burghers and Jews in the Noble Republic: Comparative Aspects Lecture: “The Shtetl as an Arena for Polish-Jewish Integration in the 18th Century”

The Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles Lecture: “Rabbis Without a Function? On Relations Between the Polish Rabbinate and the Council of Four Lands”

2002 Conference in Leipzig: The Jews in the Legal System of the Holy Roman Empire Lecture: “Looking East: The Jews’ Legal Status and the Jews’ Legal System in 16th Century Poland”

Conference in Philadelphia: Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe Lecture: “Tradition and Crisis? 18th-Century Critiques of the Polish-Lithuanian Rabbinate in Social and Cultural Context”

2003 Conference at Jerusalem: The Legacy of Prof. Jacob Katz Lecture: "The Concept of “Traditional Society” in the Scholarship of Jacob Katz: A Critical Perspective"

Workshop at Wesleyan University, Connecticut (Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History): Early Modern Jewries Discussion: Jewish Privileges in Poland, 1453, 1711

2004 Conference in Haifa: Between History and Ideology: Society, Culture, and Ideology in the Study of 18th Century

Teller CV Page 13 of 25 European History: A Conference in Memory of Azriel Shochat Lecture: “Tradition and Crisis? 18th-Century Critiques of the Polish-Lithuanian Rabbinate in Social and Cultural Context”

Conference in Madison, Wisconsin: Jewish History Encounters Economy Lecture: "Economic Activity as a Form of Cultural Contact in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania

Workshop at University of Maryland (Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History): Jews and Urban Spaces Discussion: "Crowding in the Jewish Quarter of Poznań in the 17th Century"

2005 Conference in Leipzig: Reconsidering the Borderlines between Early Modern and Modern Jewish History Lecture: “On the Threshold of Modernity: Jewish Proposals to the Four Year Sejm”

Workshop at Wesleyan University, Connecticut (Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History): Gender, Family, Social Structures Discussion: "Unequal Opportunities: Jewish Women’s Economic Activity"

2008 Workshop at Yeshiva University, New York (Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History): Law: Continuity and Change in the Early Modern Period Discussion: “Trying Issues: Polish-Lithuanian Jews under Multiple Jurisdictions”

2009 International Conference at the University of Pennsylvania: Jews, Commerce, and Culture Participant: Concluding Round Table Discussion

2010 Dept. History, University of Pennsylvania. Symposium on Early Modern Jewish History Paper: “Economic History and Cultural History in ‘Early Modern Jewry’ by Prof. David Ruderman”

International Conference at the University of Antwerp, Belgium: Jews, Commerce, and Culture Paper: The Rise and Fall of the Ickowicz Brothers: International Jewish Businessmen in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania

Teller CV Page 14 of 25 Workshop at Wesleyan University (Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History): Jewish Community and Identity in the Early Modern Period Discussion: The Council of Four Lands as an Early Modern Parliament

International Conference at Northwestern University, Chicago: Jews, Urban Space, and Early Modernity Paper: The Struggle for Urban Resources: Jewish Refugees in Słuck after 1648

2011 Dept. History, University of Pennsylvania. Symposium on Early Modern Jewish History Paper: “The Social Background to the Frankist Movement as portrayed in ‘The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816’ by Pawel Maciejko”

International Conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel: Cultural Archaeology of Jews and Slavs: Medieval and Early Modern Judeo-Slavic Interaction and Cross-Fertilization Paper: Wanda and the Jewish Maidens: Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Seventeenth Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Washington DC Lecture: Gzeires Tah Vetat as a Gendered Experience: Jewish Women Victims and Refugees, 1648-1683

2012 Tel Aviv University, Israel, The Third Biannual Israeli-Polish Graduate Workshop on the History of Polish Jewry, Tel Aviv University, Israel Keynote: Polish-Jewish Relations: Historical Research and Social Significance: On the Legacy of Jacob Goldberg

University of California, San Diego, International Conference Stories of Khmelnytskyi: Conflicting Legacies of a Cossack Uprising Paper: A Portrait in Ambivalence: The Case of Natan Hanover and his Chronicle, Yavein Metsulah

Columbia University, New York, International Conference Jewish Internationalism: Collective Politics in the 19th and 20th Centuries Paper: Trans-Regional Philanthropic Networks in the Early Modern Jewish World: Towards an Economic Analysis

Teller CV Page 15 of 25 The Center for Jewish History, New York New York Scholars’ Seminar Paper: Wanda and the Jewish Maidens: Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Seventeenth Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Symposium, The Center for Jewish History, New York History of Jewish Giving: Jews and Charity, A Symposium Respondent

Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Chicago Il Chair and Respondent for Session: Networks of Giving to the Holy Land in the Early Modern Period

2013 Workshop at University of Maryland (Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History): Jews and Violence in the Early Modern Period Presentation: "Kill or be Killed? Realities and Representations of Violence in Seventeenth Century Ukraine”

Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Boston MA Organizer and Speaker for Session: Rethinking Salo Baron in the Twenty First Century: Contemporary Research Confronts an Old Master Paper: “Revisiting Baron’s “Lachrymose Conception”: The Meanings of Violence in Jewish History”

2014 Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Transformations of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe Presentation: "Over the Border: Psychological, Social, and Cultural Experiences of Polish Jewish Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire after 1648”

“ Conference at the Central European University, Budapest Narratives of Violence Presentation: “Kill or be Killed: Realities and Representations of Violence in Seventeenth Century Ukraine.

“ Conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Making History Jewish: The Dialectics of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Land of Israel Presentation: ‘To Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles’: The Use of Violence by Jews in the 1648 Uprising and its Historical Significance

“ The Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Baltimore MD Roundtable: Museum of the History of Polish Jews: Challenges and Dilemmas

“ Roundtable at The Center for Jewish History, New York

Teller CV Page 16 of 25 The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70 CE-1492

2015 POLIN Museum for the History of the Jews in Poland, Warsaw, Poland International Conference: From Ibrahim ibn Yakub to 6 Anielewicz Street Paper: Something Old, Something New: Creating the Narrative for the Two Early Modern Galleries

Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, University of Leipzig International Symposium: Early Modern Ashkenazi Record Keeping. Pinkassim as Historical Sources Paper: The East European Pinkas Kahal: Form and Function

2016 Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany International Conference: Jewish Diplomacy and Welfare: Intersections and Transformations in the Early Modern and Modern Period Paper: Venetian Jews and the Polish-Jewish Refugees of the Mid- Seventeenth Century: Jewish Trans-Regional Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean

“ Roundtable at The University of Toronto, Canada Stories of Khmelnytskyi: Conflicting Legacies

2017 The Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem Lecture: The East European Pinkas Kahal: Form and Function

“ The University of Maryland, College Park International Conference: The Practice of Jewish Politics, 1492-1880 Lecture: Trans-Regional Philanthropic Networks in the Early Modern Jewish World and the Beginnings of Modern Jewish Politics

Roundtable at The Center for Historical Research in Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany Ha-Makom. Jews, Poles, Germans: Places of Remembrance and Oblivion

2018 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Boston Roundtable: Money, Power, and Influence: The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates in Eighteenth century Lithuania

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6. Research Grants a. Current Grants The Pinkassim Project: Recovering the Records of European Jewry 100,000 pounds sterling from the “Yerusha: Pan-Europe Archive Survey” of the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe (2017-2018) I am one of a group of ten scholars from the USA, Canada, Holland, Germany, Poland, and Israel working on this project.

b. Completed Grants NEH Fellowship at the Center for Jewish History, New York (2012)

The Pinkassim Project: Recovering the Records of European Jewry 100,000 pounds sterling from the “Yerusha: Pan-Europe Archive Survey” of the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe (2015-2016)

7. Service i. To the University

Brown University 2010-11 - Member of Dissertation Committee: Adam Sacks, Dept. of History - Member of Promotion Committee: Lin Fisher, Dept. of History - Member of Promotion Committee: Marcy Brink-Danan, Program in Judaic Studies - Member of Cogut Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee: Dept. of German Studies - Library Liaison: Program in Judaic Studies - Undergraduate Thesis Reader: Rachel Weitz, Dept. of History - Undergraduate Thesis Reader: Jenny Grayson, Dept. of History 2011-2012 - Organizing Workshop: The Ninth Annual Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History. Topic: “Cross-Cultural Connections in the Early Modern Jewish World” - Freshman Adviser (5 students) - Member, Craig Cambridge Fellowship Committee, Dean’s Office - Member of MA Committee, Program in Jewish Studies - Library Liaison: Program in Judaic Studies - Member of Dissertation Committee: Anna Borejsza-Wysocka, Dept. of History

Teller CV Page 18 of 25 - Undergraduate Thesis Reader: Dept. of History 2012-2013 - Member of Promotion Committee, Lin Fisher, Dept. History - Member, Craig Cambridge Fellowship Committee, Dean’s Office - Member of Concentration Review Committee, Judaic Studies 2013-14 - Director of Undergraduate Studies and Concentration Adviser, Program in Judaic Studies - Member of Search Committee, “Latin America and the World,” History Dept. - Member of the University Commencement Speaker Committee 2014- - Director of Undergraduate Studies and Concentration Adviser, Program in Judaic Studies - Undergraduate Thesis Reader: Jenny Grayson, Dept. of History 2015 - Led an Undergraduate Study Tour of Poland - Freshman Adviser (4 Students) 2015 - - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Brown/RISD Hillel 2015-2017 - Member of the University Graduate Council 2016 - Freshman Adviser (6 Students) - Sophomore Adviser (5 Students)

The University of Haifa 2000-01 Director, Department of Overseas Studies 2000-02 Alternate Member, Academic Discipline Committee 2004-06 - Member, Academic Discipline Committee - Member, M.A. Committee, Dept. Jewish History 2004 Member, Search Committee in Medieval Jewish History 2005-08 Established and ran M.A. program on Polish-Jewish History, Dept. Jewish History 2007 Member, Search Committee in German Jewish History

i. To the Profession 1987-90 Archivist, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem 1997-2005 Managing Editor, “Jewish History” 1998 Member of Organizing Committee, International Conference, “The Jewish Community, New Perspectives”, University of Haifa 1999 Organized “New Directions in Research on the History of Eastern European Jewish History: An International Graduate Colloquium”, University of Haifa 2000-01 Organized Conference “Polemic and Conflict in the History of the Jews in Eastern Europe”, University of Haifa

Teller CV Page 19 of 25 2002- - Member of the Editorial Board, “Polin” - Judge of Doctoral Thesis by Tamar Salmon-Mack, Marital Issues in Polish Jewry, 1500-1800, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew) 2003- Member of the Organizing Committee, The Early Modern Workshop: Jewish Historical Resources (www.earlymodern.org) 2003 External reader for book ms., Jan Doktor, Poczatki chasydyzmu polskiego, Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej 2005 - Member of Organizing Committee, International Conference, German Historical Institute, Warsaw 2002: “Burghers and Jews in the Noble Republic: Comparative Aspects” - Organized Conference, "Society, Culture, and Ideology in the Study of 18th Century European History: A Conference in Memory of Azriel Shochat" at the University of Haifa 2005-10 Joint Editor: "Jewish History"

2006 Member of Organizing Committee of International Conference: “Wzajemne postrzeganie miedzy Polakami i Zydami w sferze publicznej” Held conjointly with the Polish Academy of Science at the University of Haifa 2006-10 Member of Core Academic Team designing the Museum for the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Responsible for the Galleries: “Paradisus Judaeorum?” (1507-1648), “Into the Country” (1648-1795) 2006-8 Member of Organizing Committee for Research Group (2008-9) at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania: “Jews, Commerce, and Culture” 2009 - Member of Organizing Committee of International Conference: Jews, Commerce, and Culture University of Pennsylvania, April 2009 - External reader for book manuscript by Judith Kalik, “Scepter of Judah”, Brill, Leiden. 2010 - Associate Editor: “Gal-Ed”, Journal for the History and Culture of Polish Jews, Tel Aviv University - Member of International Selection Committee, The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia - Referee for granting tenure, Yeshiva University

Teller CV Page 20 of 25 - External reader for book proposal, Oxford University Press - Referee for article submitted to the Jewish Quarterly Review - Referee for article submitted to Zion (Hebrew) 2011 - Referee for Doctoral Grant, The Foundation for Jewish Culture - Referee for granting tenure, University College, London - Editorial Board: Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture - External Reader for book manuscript, Oxford University Press 2012 - Organized and Ran, The Ninth Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History – Cross-Cultural Connections in the Early Modern Jewish World 2012-14 - Member of Program Committee, Association for Jewish Studies “ - Member of Strategic Planning Committee, Association for Jewish Studies “ - Consultant, Museum for the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Galleries: “Paradisus Judaeorum?” (1507-1648), “Into the Country” (1648-1795) 2013-14 - Member of Library Sub-committee, Center for Jewish History, New York 2014 - - Member of the Academic Advisory Council, Center for Jewish History, New York 2015 - External Reader for Doctoral Dissertation, Tel Aviv University “ - Member of the Academic Advisory Council, POLIN Museum for the History of the Jews in Poland, Warsaw, Poland 2016 - Referee for Granting Tenure Johns Hopkins University “ - External Reader for Book Manuscript The University of Indiana Press 2017 - External Reader for Doctoral Dissertation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem “ - Referee for article submitted to the Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies “ - External Reader for Book Manuscript Princeton University Press 2018 - Referee for Promotion Cornell University

Teller CV Page 21 of 25 “ - Referee for article submitted to Jewish Social Studies “ - Referee for article submitted to Zapiski Historyczne “ - Member of Conference Organizing Committee, Galicia, 1772-2022: Two Hundred and Fifty Years Since its Creation

iii To the Community

2000-2002 President, “Sulam Ya’akov” Jewish Community, Zikhron Ya’akov, Israel

8. Academic Honors and Fellowships 1986-87 “Lev-Zion” grant 1986 - Fetman Prize for Jewish History - First prize at the Jagiellonian University summer school, Krakow 1988 Prize for best seminar paper on Polish Jewish history, Hebrew University 1990 “Ma’ash” prize for East European Jewish History 1991 Prize from the Yitzhak Leventer Fund for Polish Jewish History 1991-94 “Vatat” grant from the Israeli Institute of Higher Education 1993 Prize from the Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University 1994 Wolfson Prize in the Humanities Research grant from the Humanities Faculty, Hebrew University 1995 Friedan prize for European Jewish History Grunwald prize in Jewish Economic History 1996 “Yad Avi Hayishuv” Stipendium from the Rothschild Foundation 1998 Bloomfield Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1998-99 Ephraim Urbach Fellowship, The Memorial Council for Jewish Culture 1999 - “Koret Foundation” grant to publish Doctoral Dissertation - “Louis and Minna Epstein Fund of the American Academy for Jewish Research” grant to publish Doctoral Dissertation 2002/3 Fellowship at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 2004 Fellowship at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University 2008-9 Fellowship at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Teller CV Page 22 of 25 2009-10 Sklare Fellowship, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass (declined) 2010 Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 2012 Senior NEH Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, New York 2013 Fellow: Fall Semester at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

9. Teaching in Recent Years 2009/10 - Power and Authority in the History of Eastern European Jewry: Sources and Methods, Graduate Seminar Taught at Columbia University (8 students) - Speech, Text, and Action in Early Hasidism, BA Taught at the University of Pennsylvania (8 students) - From Amsterdam to Istanbul: Jews in the Early Modern World, BA Taught at Johns Hopkins University (38 students) - The Jewish Family in Modern Europe, 1650-1940, BA Taught at Johns Hopkins University (15 students)

At Brown University 2010/11 - From Amsterdam to Istanbul: Jews in the Early Modern World, BA (2 students) - Making Sparks Fly: Mysticism and Politics in the History of Hasidism, BA (6 students) - A Commonwealth of Many Nations: Early Modern Poland- Lithuania, BA (6 students) - Money, Power, Sex, and Love: The Jewish Family in Modern Europe, BA (6 students) 2011/12 - Early Modern Globalization: Jewish Economic Activity, 1500- 1800, BA (9 students) - Difficult Relations: Christianity and Judaism, 1000-2000, BA (4 students) - Co-existence and Conflict: Polish-Jewish Relations from 1500 until Today (6 students) 2013/14 - Early Modern Continental Europe – Graduate Reading Seminar, PhD (8 students) - The Jew in the Modern World, First Year Seminar (7 students) - Early Modern Globalization: Jewish Economic Activity, 1500- 1800, BA (5 students) - Jews, Mysticism, Magic: A History of Kabbalah, BA (7 students)

Teller CV Page 23 of 25 2014/15 - Money, Power, Sex, and Love: The Modern Jewish Family (1 student) - Slavery in the Early Modern World (2 Students) - A Commonwealth of Many Nations: Early Modern Poland- Lithuania, BA (3 students) - The Spirituality of Food, GISP (7 Students) - Brothers Betrayed: Polish-Jewish Relations from 1500 until Today (21 students) - I also led the students of a study tour of Poland during the Spring Break. 2015/16 - Early Modern Continental Europe – Graduate Reading Seminar, PhD (6 students) - Difficult Relations: Christianity and Judaism, 1000-2000, FYS (15 students) - History of the Holocaust, BA (25 students) - Early Modern Globalization: Jewish Economic Activity, 1500- 1800, BA (8 students)

2016/17 - Difficult Relations: Christianity and Judaism, 1000-2000, FYS (16 students) “ - Anti-Semitism, Anti-Judaism, Anti-Zionism: Historical Connections and Disconnections (12 students) - History of the Holocaust, BA (33 students) - Slavery in the Early Modern World (12 Students)

2018/19 - Difficult Relations: Christianity and Judaism, 1000-2000, FYS (17 students) “ - Slavery in the Early Modern World (11 Students)

2015-2016 Faculty Adviser for Undergraduate Royce Fellow, Alexander Strzelecki Project: Inclusion/Exclusion: Cultural Transformations in the Warsaw Jewish Quarter

Teaching Outside Brown University 2015 - Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, University of Leipzig Graduate Workshop in the Study of Ashkenazic Pinkassim: Classes in Early Modern Hebrew Palaeography “ - Eli Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University Summer School: The International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry Presentation: Meeting Grounds of Scholarship on Jewish and non-Jewish East European History

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“ - Meah: Adult Education Program in Jewish History and Culture A semester course in Modern Jewish History.

2017 - Meah: Adult Education Program in Jewish History and Culture A semester course in Modern Jewish History.

Doctoral Students Completed - Hani Bareket, "Der Moment" and the Development of the Yiddish Press in Interwar Poland, University of Haifa, Awarded 2011

- Ilia Vovshin, The Rise of a Russian-Jewish Plutocracy in the 19th Century, University of Haifa

In progress - Boris Tarnopolsky, Relations between Jews and Non-Jews in Gomel, 1861-1914, University of Haifa

- Mayer Juni, Early Modern Jewish History, Brown University (Second Year)

Member of Dissertation Committee - Cornelia Aust, Between Warsaw and Amsterdam Networks of Jewish Merchants in Central and East Central Europe, Dept. History, The University of Pennsylvania, Awarded 2010

- Adam Sacks, The Jewish Doctor’s Choir in Berlin in the First Half of the Twentieth Century , Dept. of History, Brown University, Awarded 2015

- Amiri Ayanna, Women’s Spirituality in Fifteenth Century Germany, Dept. of History, Brown University - - Anna Borejsza-Wysocka, Biography of Wilhelm Feldman, Polish-Jewish Literary Critic and Thinker, Dept. of History, Brown University

- Harry Merritt, Filip Ani, Prelims field in Eastern Europe and its Jews, 1648-1939 (2015)

I was chosen outstanding lecturer in the Dept. of Jewish History at the University of Haifa for the academic years 2001/2 and 2005/6

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