Magda Teter-Associate Professor of History Faculty Photo

Magda Teter

Associate Professor
of History

Wesleyan University

PAC 313

Middletown, CT 06459

Tel: 860.685.5356

Fax: 860.685.2078

mteter@wesleyan.edu


Office Hours: On sabbatical 2007-8


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Articles:

With Debra Kaplan (Yeshiva University), "Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: Jews and the Reformation" (Sixteenth Century Journal, in press)

"'There Should Be No Love between Us and Them': Social Life and the Bounds of Jewish and Canon Law in Early Modern Poland," an article to be published in Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland  (Oxford: Littmann Library of Jewish Civilization, forthcoming 2009)

"Crime and Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Poland," a chapter in a book Religion - Symbol - Communication: The Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania in the Early Modern Period, ed. Yvonne Kleimann (Simon Dubnow Institute: Leipzig, Germany, forthcoming in 2009)

"Negotiating the internal and the external, or on the contextualization of pre-modern Ashkenazi Jewry": Review essay on Joseph M. Davis, Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth‐Century Rabbi in Jewish History 21 no. (2007): 217-232. 

With Edward Fram, "Apostasy, Fraud and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow," AJS Review 30 no. 1 (2006): 31-66

 "The Legend of Ger Zedek (Righteous Convert) of Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance," AJS Review 29 no. 2 (2005): 237-263

 With Edward Fram, "Matai nosad ha-defus  ha-`ivri be-Qraqov?" [Hebrew: When Did Hebrew Printing Begin in Cracow?], Gal-`Ed 20 (2005): 144-149

 "Kilka uwag na temat podziałów społecznych i religijnych pomiędzy Żydami i Chrześcijanami we wschodnich miastach dawnej Rzeczpospolitej" [Polish: Some Remarks on the Social and Religious Divisions between Jews and Christians in Eastern Towns of Premodern Poland], Kwartalnik Historii Żydów [Quarterly of Jewish History, Warsaw, Poland] 207 no. 3 (September, 2003): 327-336 

"Jewish Conversions to Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Jewish History 17 no. 3 (2003): 257-283 

"Lost in Translation: The London Missionary Society and the Nineteenth Century Translation of the Pentateuch" in Biblical Translations in Context, ed. Frederick Knobloch (College Park: University of Maryland Press, 2002): 145-154 

"Catholic Reform" in History of the Modern World  (Tarrytown: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1999),  vol. 2: Religion and Change in Europe

 "Przemoc w stosunku do kobiet w Biblii hebrajskiej" [Polish: Violence against Women in the Hebrew Bible], Pełnym głosem (With Full Voice) 4 (1996): 71-88. Also translated into Slovak, "Násilie páchané na ženách v Biblii," Aspekt 2 (1997): 91-97.

 Articles published regularly in Polish/Yiddish magazine Dos Yidishe Vort (1991-1993).

 ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

 The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe:  articles: "Ger Zedek," "Katarzyna Malcherowa Weigel," "The Helicz Family," "The Ezofowicz Family," "Conversions," "Judaizers."  (New Haven: Yale University Press,  2008).

Article on the “Ritual Murder Accusation” for The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture edited by Judith Baskin (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)