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Adam Teller January 2019 CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Professor, Program in Jewish Studies and Dept. of History, Brown University 2 Adam Teller January 2019 CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Professor, Program in Jewish Studies and Dept. of History, Brown University 2. N/A 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 Teller CV Page 1 of 25 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
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