Joshua

Teplitsky

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania Faculty Fellow

Research Topic

Quarantine in the Prague Ghetto: Jews, Christians, and the Plague in Early Modern Europe

Bio

Joshua Teplitsky is the Joseph Meyerhoff Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Penn. His research focuses on the history of Jewish life in early modern Central Europe within the wider context of Jewish/Christian interaction and minority experience. He is also a codirector of the digital humanities project, “Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place.” This ongoing collaborative project traces the movement of Jewish books between 1450 and 1800.

Teplitsky received his Ph.D. in Hebrew and Judaic studies from NYU in 2012.

Selected publications

Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library (Yale University Press, 2019)
Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History, coedited with S. Lieberman Mintz and W. Klein (Mineged Publishing House, 2022).

Fellowship

2016–2017

Political Ramifications: Expanding Jewish Political Thought

Asking if and how Jewish history, culture, and experience offered new paradigms with which to engage the political—and, conversely, how mainstream political theories might expand Jewish studies in new and productive directions.