hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1A historian. Author of "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism" (Princeton 2023); "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth" (Harvard 2020: NJBA 2020; AHA: Mosse 2021; SCS: Bainton 2021); "Sinners on Trial" (Harvard 2011); "Jews and Heretics" (Cambridge 2005).
Fellowships: John Simon Guggenheim, Harry Frank Guggenheim, Radcliffe, Cullman, NEH, et al.
This is my politics-free, scholarly interest account. For politics follow me @MTNYC@urbanists.social
Happy to see a preview of my book "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism" on the @princetonupress@mstdn.party website:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691242583/christian-supremacy#preview
Check out TOC, Introduction. Pub date May 16th!
My essay "Jews and Race in Early Modernity" has just been published in Routledge Resources Online – The Renaissance World.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367347093-RERW245-1
This is coming soon--with my critical introduction:
"Europe in the Sixteenth Century"
By H. G. Koenigsberger, George L. Mosse, and G. Q. Bowler
Introduction by Magda Teter
https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/E/Europe-in-the-Sixteenth-Century
Here is an experiment I always do with my books, including the new one. I ordered my own new book through @princetonupress@mastodon.social , Amazon, and Barnes and Nobles to see which one would start shipping first. Princeton shipped two weeks ago. B&N two days ago, Amazon sticks to the pub date schedule. If anyone is interested in actually buying the book use Princeton press website and get 30% off the print edition with TET30 discount code and audiobook edition PUP30 (the audiobook will be released in May)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691242583/christian-supremacy
This is finally out! Just in time to mark the 550th anniversary of the destruction of the Jewish community in Trento
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633868256/blood-libels-hostile-archives
My book "Christian Supremacy" (HB) is on sale with a discount code SAVE70 until October 31. Yes, that 70% off on the HB
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691242583/christian-supremacy
Out in less than a month, an incredible volume on how specific themes have been addressed in Jewish Studies as a field. Mine is a contribution about "Difference and Violence."
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215198/the-princeton-companion-to-jewish-studies
@joyce@hcommons.social I would recommend the chapter by Ivan Marcus in a book titled "Cultures of the Jews" edited by David Biale: Marcus, Ivan G. "A Jewish-Christian Symbiosis: The Culture of Early Ashkenaz." In Cultures of the Jews: A New History, edited by David Biale, 448-516. New York: Schocken Books, 2002.
You may also take a look at Baumgarten, Elisheva, Tzafrir Barzilay, and Eyal Levinson. Jewish Everyday Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350: A Sourcebook. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2022.
My new article is out:
Teter, Magda. "Delegated Governance: Rethinking the Idea of Premodern Jewish Autonomy." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 43, no. 1 (2025): 215-229.
@CitizenWald@historians.social not something we learned at school! 😅
@CitizenWald@historians.social The funny thing about the flag day is that it was recently instituted to give people a longer time off. May 1 used to be a holiday in communist Poland, then after communism May 3 became the "Constitution Day" and a holiday. So May 2 came as a flag day to add patriotism to the long weekend.
@CitizenWald@historians.social How come I did not know he was buried in Georgia? I guess when we studied about him in school in Poland I did not know where Georgia was and never thought about him again, except when cycling across the Pulaski bridge in Long Island City/Greenpoint 😅
@CitizenWald@historians.social Looking forward to your thought! As always.
@CitizenWald@historians.social Yes, it was an honor and a great occasion to think in a new way about the material I have come to know so well! And it was the last time she attended.