Wednesday, May 6, 2020
4 - 5 p.m.
Webinar via Zoom (Link to be sent 1-2 days prior)
The second conversation between Joshua Teplitsky and Magda Teter on disease and plagues in Jewish history and memory. During this installment Professors Teplitsky and Teter will discuss the role historians have played in shaping public memory of the plagues. They will examine the role premodern chroniclers played in defining “facts” and the way modern historians have approached the topic from the earliest days of modern historiography in the nineteenth century to more recent works.
This conversation follows the conversation on April 22, 2020, available here.
Joshua Teplitsky (Ph.D. NYU) teaches Jewish history at SUNY Stony Brook. He is the author of Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library (Yale University Press, 2019), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He is also the author of dozens of articles in academic journals and popular venues. Joshua Teplitsky received many prestigious fellowships. He is currently a Harry Starr Fellow at Harvard University, working on a book about Jews and plagues in premodern Europe.
Magda Teter (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth (Harvard University Press, 2020), Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (Harvard, 2011), and Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (Cambridge, 2006). She has published numerous articles in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Polish. Her research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundations,the Yad Ha-Nadiv Foundation, Harvard University, and the NYPL's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, among others.
All Fordham events in Jewish Studies are free and open to public.