Magda Teter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1147938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magda Teter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magda |
| FAMILY NAME | Teter |
| SIGNATURE | TETER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2945-9101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Blood Inscriptions
Christian Supremacy
The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 7
The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 7: The Early Modern World, 1500–1815. Jonathan Karp and Adam Sutcliffe, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 1,136 pp. $215. - Volume 74 Issue 1
Blood Libel
Drawing on sources in eight countries and ten languages, Magda Teter tells the history of the antisemitic blood libel myth, whose long shadow extends from premodern monastic chronicles to Facebook. The vocabulary and images that crystallized and spread with the invention of the printing press are still with us, as are their pernicious consequences.
Statement from the Incoming Editors
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The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland
Aya Elyada. A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish
The young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's visit to the Frankfurt ghetto and his subsequent efforts to learn Hebrew and Yiddish are the starting point for Aya Elyada's book. The anecdote underscores what David Ruderman recently called the “connected histories” of European Jews and Christians. All too often topics related to Jews have been relegated to a “historiographical ghetto.” But as historiography breaks the chains of national histories, it beco…
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Jews on Trial
Reconstructing Ashkenaz
Sinners on Trial
In post-Reformation Poland—the largest state in Europe and home to the largest Jewish population in the world—the Catholic Church suffered profound anxiety about its power after the Protestant threat. Magda Teter reveals how criminal law became a key tool in the manipulation of the meaning of the sacred and in the effort to legitimize Church authority. The mishandling of sacred symbols was transformed from a sin that could be absolved into a crim…
Sinners on Trial
Friars on the Frontier
Introduction
‘There should be no love between us and them’
Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons
Out of the (Historiographie) Ghetto
Extant historiography has created a historiographie ghetto, seldom considering Jewish sources as relevant to the larger narrative of European history. This has created two parallel, often disconnected areas of study, "European history" and "Jewish history." Archival materials show that Jews and Christians resided side by side and interacted daily in early modern Europe. Reformation Strasbourg and post-Reformation Poland, geographically and demogr…
De Officio Mariti
Producing Desire
The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence
A postasy , F raud, and the B eginnings of H ebrew P rinting in C racow
One of the most unusual episodes in the annals of Hebrew printing involved the first Jewish printers in Poland—Samuel, Asher, and Elyakim Helicz—who began to print in Cracow or, more likely, in neighboring Kazimierz, in 1534. 1 Within a year of opening their business, the brothers had produced five relatively short titles, all of which were first editions and four of which were the first Yiddish books ever printed. After about a year of work, the…
The Legend of Ger Ẓedek of Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance
Some time in the second half of the eighteenth century, there emerged a Jewish legend that glorified a conversion to Judaism and a martyr's death of a Polish noble from a very prominent Polish aristocratic family, sometimes referred to as Walentyn Potocki, or Graf Potocki—the legend of ger ẓedek , a righteous convert, of Wilno. The story was enthusiastically embraced by Eastern European Jews, and it subsequently became a subject of numerous novel…
A postasy , F raud, and the B eginnings of H ebrew P rinting in C racow
One of the most unusual episodes in the annals of Hebrew printing involved the first Jewish printers in Poland—Samuel, Asher, and Elyakim Helicz—who began to print in Cracow or, more likely, in neighboring Kazimierz, in 1534. 1 Within a year of opening their business, the brothers had produced five relatively short titles, all of which were first editions and four of which were the first Yiddish books ever printed. After about a year of work, the…
The Legend of Ger Ẓedek of Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance
Some time in the second half of the eighteenth century, there emerged a Jewish legend that glorified a conversion to Judaism and a martyr's death of a Polish noble from a very prominent Polish aristocratic family, sometimes referred to as Walentyn Potocki, or Graf Potocki—the legend of ger ẓedek , a righteous convert, of Wilno. The story was enthusiastically embraced by Eastern European Jews, and it subsequently became a subject of numerous novel…
The Legend of Ger Ẓedek of Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance
Some time in the second half of the eighteenth century, there emerged a Jewish legend that glorified a conversion to Judaism and a martyr's death of a Polish noble from a very prominent Polish aristocratic family, sometimes referred to as Walentyn Potocki, or Graf Potocki—the legend of ger ẓedek , a righteous convert, of Wilno. The story was enthusiastically embraced by Eastern European Jews, and it subsequently became a subject of numerous novel…
A postasy , F raud, and the B eginnings of H ebrew P rinting in C racow
One of the most unusual episodes in the annals of Hebrew printing involved the first Jewish printers in Poland—Samuel, Asher, and Elyakim Helicz—who began to print in Cracow or, more likely, in neighboring Kazimierz, in 1534. 1 Within a year of opening their business, the brothers had produced five relatively short titles, all of which were first editions and four of which were the first Yiddish books ever printed. After about a year of work, the…
The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence
Out of the (Historiographie) Ghetto
Extant historiography has created a historiographie ghetto, seldom considering Jewish sources as relevant to the larger narrative of European history. This has created two parallel, often disconnected areas of study, "European history" and "Jewish history." Archival materials show that Jews and Christians resided side by side and interacted daily in early modern Europe. Reformation Strasbourg and post-Reformation Poland, geographically and demogr…
De Officio Mariti
Producing Desire
Introduction
‘There should be no love between us and them’
Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons
Sinners on Trial
In post-Reformation Poland—the largest state in Europe and home to the largest Jewish population in the world—the Catholic Church suffered profound anxiety about its power after the Protestant threat. Magda Teter reveals how criminal law became a key tool in the manipulation of the meaning of the sacred and in the effort to legitimize Church authority. The mishandling of sacred symbols was transformed from a sin that could be absolved into a crim…
Sinners on Trial
Friars on the Frontier
Statement from the Incoming Editors
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Jews on Trial
Reconstructing Ashkenaz
Aya Elyada. A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish
The young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's visit to the Frankfurt ghetto and his subsequent efforts to learn Hebrew and Yiddish are the starting point for Aya Elyada's book. The anecdote underscores what David Ruderman recently called the “connected histories” of European Jews and Christians. All too often topics related to Jews have been relegated to a “historiographical ghetto.” But as historiography breaks the chains of national histories, it beco…
The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland
Statement from the Incoming Editors
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Blood Libel
Drawing on sources in eight countries and ten languages, Magda Teter tells the history of the antisemitic blood libel myth, whose long shadow extends from premodern monastic chronicles to Facebook. The vocabulary and images that crystallized and spread with the invention of the printing press are still with us, as are their pernicious consequences.
The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 7
The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 7: The Early Modern World, 1500–1815. Jonathan Karp and Adam Sutcliffe, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 1,136 pp. $215. - Volume 74 Issue 1
Blood Inscriptions
Christian Supremacy
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages
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