Adam Teller
Biographic Data
| ID | 956459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Teller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Teller |
| SIGNATURE | TELLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The East European Pinkas Kahal
F rancesca T rivellato . The Promise and Peril of Credit
In this enthralling and incisive study, The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society, Francesca Trivellato takes as her goal the elucidation of early modern concepts of commercial activity—more specifically, of the moral and ethical borders of the credit market. She does so through a close analysis of how various economic authors picked up and retold one p…
Rescue the Surviving Souls
The Captives
This chapter details the journey of the Jewish captives from Ukraine to the Tatar homeland of Crimea. By the time of the uprising, Jews in Ukraine were well aware of the dangers of the Black Sea slave trade. It is impossible even to estimate how many Jews were captured during the period from 1648 to 1667. Not all those taken by the Tatars actually made it to the slave market, killed either by their captors or by the traveling conditions. The chap…
Ransoming Captives
This chapter describes the process of ransoming Jewish captives. Jewish captives had to be ransomed with money raised by the Jewish communities themselves and paid by them to the captors. Over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Jewish society succeeded in creating a broad transregional economic network whose goal was to ransom its members being held captive to be sold as slaves. Largely centered in Venice, from where much of the fundrai…
Polish Jews Meet German Jews
This chapter assesses the meetings of the Polish Jewish refugees with the German Jews on the ground in the communities of the Holy Roman Empire. It begins by examining the chapbook Di bashraybung fun Ashkenaz un Polak (The Description of a German and a Polish Jew). Published in Prague sometime in the second half of the seventeenth century, it provides a satirical look at the interaction of the Polish Jewish refugees with the German Jews they met …
Rescue the Surviving Souls
Teller pays particular attention to those thousands of Jews sent for sale on the slave markets of Istanbul and the extensive transregional Jewish economic network that coalesced to ransom them. He also explores how Jewish communities rallied to support the refugees in central and western Europe, as well as in Poland-Lithuania, doing everything possible to help them overcome their traumatic experiences and rebuild their lives.
On the Istanbul Slave Market
This chapter explores the experience of Jewish captives in the slave market in Istanbul. Despite the best efforts of the Muslim guild merchants to exclude Jews from the slave trade, there were always plenty of opportunities for non-guild merchants, prominent among them Jews, to act as unofficial traders or to broker various deals. Jews thus remained prominent figures in the business. All this meant that when it came to ransoming the captives, the…
Amsterdam
This chapter addresses how, though the majority of the refugees from the Commonwealth who traveled westward ended up in the empire, a significant number made for a place outside it: Amsterdam. The major city in the Seven Provinces, the part of the Netherlands that had broken free of Habsburg control in 1581, Amsterdam had become one of Europe's major trading emporia and a bastion of mercantilism by the seventeenth century. The cosmopolitan atmosp…
The Wars in Eastern Europe, the Jews of Jerusalem, and the Rise of Sabbateanism
Hasia R. Diner. Roads Taken
This study of one aspect of Jewish economic activity in the long nineteenth century is not only innovative and insightful, but engaging too. In flowing prose, Hasia R. Diner presents the reader with a vivid group portrait of the hundreds of thousands of modern Jewish migrants who began their lives in their new homes by walking the roads with a pack from which they sold goods door-to-door. The figure of the Jewish peddler was not unknown before th…
Jakub Goldberg 1924–2011
Revisiting Baron's “Lachrymose Conception”
In a paper entitled, “Newer Emphases in Jewish History,” published in 1963, Salo Baron wrote: “All my life I have been struggling against the hitherto dominant “lachrymose conception of Jewish history” ... because I have felt that an overemphasis on Jewish sufferings distorted the total picture of the Jewish historic evolution....” Indeed, if one was to choose a single idea that encapsulated the legacy of Baron, perhaps the pre-eminent Jewish his…
Culture and Money
Culture and Money: The Economic Dimension of Cultural History and What It Can Teach Us Adam Teller David B. Ruderman. Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. ix + 326. At the end of a letter to Rabbi Moses Isserles in Kraków, dated Monday 12 Nissan 1559 (5319), Rabbi Samuel Judah Kaztenellenbogen of Padua added a personal note: “A Jew has arrived here who has bought up the copies of Isaac…
Introduction
Telling the Difference Some Comparative Perspectives on the Jews’ Legal Status in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire
Seeing with Both Eyes
by Leonard S. Levin, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2008, xvii + 449 pp., [euro]115.00, ISBN 978‐9004164840 Shlomo Ephraim Luntshitz – he took the name “Shlomo” late in life in a mystical renaming ceremony
‘In the Land of their Enemies’? The Duality of Jewish Life in Eighteenth-Century Poland
Hasidism and the Challenge of Geography
One of the most significant phenomena in the course of modern Jewish history is undoubtedly the astonishing success of the hasidic movement in winning and retaining large numbers of followers. What is even more remarkable is that this process took a relatively short time to come to fruition: It is widely agreed that at the death of the Ba‘al Shem Tov (who is often still regarded as the founder of the movement) in 1760, his circle numbered no more…
The Shtetl as an Arena for Polish–Jewish Integration in the Eighteenth Century
Revisiting Baron's “Lachrymose Conception”
In a paper entitled, “Newer Emphases in Jewish History,” published in 1963, Salo Baron wrote: “All my life I have been struggling against the hitherto dominant “lachrymose conception of Jewish history” ... because I have felt that an overemphasis on Jewish sufferings distorted the total picture of the Jewish historic evolution....” Indeed, if one was to choose a single idea that encapsulated the legacy of Baron, perhaps the pre-eminent Jewish his…
Hasidism and the Challenge of Geography
One of the most significant phenomena in the course of modern Jewish history is undoubtedly the astonishing success of the hasidic movement in winning and retaining large numbers of followers. What is even more remarkable is that this process took a relatively short time to come to fruition: It is widely agreed that at the death of the Ba‘al Shem Tov (who is often still regarded as the founder of the movement) in 1760, his circle numbered no more…
The Shtetl as an Arena for Polish–Jewish Integration in the Eighteenth Century
Hasidism and the Challenge of Geography
One of the most significant phenomena in the course of modern Jewish history is undoubtedly the astonishing success of the hasidic movement in winning and retaining large numbers of followers. What is even more remarkable is that this process took a relatively short time to come to fruition: It is widely agreed that at the death of the Ba‘al Shem Tov (who is often still regarded as the founder of the movement) in 1760, his circle numbered no more…
‘In the Land of their Enemies’? The Duality of Jewish Life in Eighteenth-Century Poland
Introduction
Telling the Difference Some Comparative Perspectives on the Jews’ Legal Status in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire
Seeing with Both Eyes
by Leonard S. Levin, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2008, xvii + 449 pp., [euro]115.00, ISBN 978‐9004164840 Shlomo Ephraim Luntshitz – he took the name “Shlomo” late in life in a mystical renaming ceremony
Revisiting Baron's “Lachrymose Conception”
In a paper entitled, “Newer Emphases in Jewish History,” published in 1963, Salo Baron wrote: “All my life I have been struggling against the hitherto dominant “lachrymose conception of Jewish history” ... because I have felt that an overemphasis on Jewish sufferings distorted the total picture of the Jewish historic evolution....” Indeed, if one was to choose a single idea that encapsulated the legacy of Baron, perhaps the pre-eminent Jewish his…
Culture and Money
Culture and Money: The Economic Dimension of Cultural History and What It Can Teach Us Adam Teller David B. Ruderman. Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. ix + 326. At the end of a letter to Rabbi Moses Isserles in Kraków, dated Monday 12 Nissan 1559 (5319), Rabbi Samuel Judah Kaztenellenbogen of Padua added a personal note: “A Jew has arrived here who has bought up the copies of Isaac…
Jakub Goldberg 1924–2011
Hasia R. Diner. Roads Taken
This study of one aspect of Jewish economic activity in the long nineteenth century is not only innovative and insightful, but engaging too. In flowing prose, Hasia R. Diner presents the reader with a vivid group portrait of the hundreds of thousands of modern Jewish migrants who began their lives in their new homes by walking the roads with a pack from which they sold goods door-to-door. The figure of the Jewish peddler was not unknown before th…
Rescue the Surviving Souls
The Captives
This chapter details the journey of the Jewish captives from Ukraine to the Tatar homeland of Crimea. By the time of the uprising, Jews in Ukraine were well aware of the dangers of the Black Sea slave trade. It is impossible even to estimate how many Jews were captured during the period from 1648 to 1667. Not all those taken by the Tatars actually made it to the slave market, killed either by their captors or by the traveling conditions. The chap…
Ransoming Captives
This chapter describes the process of ransoming Jewish captives. Jewish captives had to be ransomed with money raised by the Jewish communities themselves and paid by them to the captors. Over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Jewish society succeeded in creating a broad transregional economic network whose goal was to ransom its members being held captive to be sold as slaves. Largely centered in Venice, from where much of the fundrai…
Polish Jews Meet German Jews
This chapter assesses the meetings of the Polish Jewish refugees with the German Jews on the ground in the communities of the Holy Roman Empire. It begins by examining the chapbook Di bashraybung fun Ashkenaz un Polak (The Description of a German and a Polish Jew). Published in Prague sometime in the second half of the seventeenth century, it provides a satirical look at the interaction of the Polish Jewish refugees with the German Jews they met …
Rescue the Surviving Souls
Teller pays particular attention to those thousands of Jews sent for sale on the slave markets of Istanbul and the extensive transregional Jewish economic network that coalesced to ransom them. He also explores how Jewish communities rallied to support the refugees in central and western Europe, as well as in Poland-Lithuania, doing everything possible to help them overcome their traumatic experiences and rebuild their lives.
On the Istanbul Slave Market
This chapter explores the experience of Jewish captives in the slave market in Istanbul. Despite the best efforts of the Muslim guild merchants to exclude Jews from the slave trade, there were always plenty of opportunities for non-guild merchants, prominent among them Jews, to act as unofficial traders or to broker various deals. Jews thus remained prominent figures in the business. All this meant that when it came to ransoming the captives, the…
Amsterdam
This chapter addresses how, though the majority of the refugees from the Commonwealth who traveled westward ended up in the empire, a significant number made for a place outside it: Amsterdam. The major city in the Seven Provinces, the part of the Netherlands that had broken free of Habsburg control in 1581, Amsterdam had become one of Europe's major trading emporia and a bastion of mercantilism by the seventeenth century. The cosmopolitan atmosp…
The Wars in Eastern Europe, the Jews of Jerusalem, and the Rise of Sabbateanism
F rancesca T rivellato . The Promise and Peril of Credit
In this enthralling and incisive study, The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society, Francesca Trivellato takes as her goal the elucidation of early modern concepts of commercial activity—more specifically, of the moral and ethical borders of the credit market. She does so through a close analysis of how various economic authors picked up and retold one p…
The East European Pinkas Kahal
History (18 works) · Judaism (14 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Economic history (6 works)