Yerushalmi Lecture 2026:
Antisemitism and the Theology of the Jewish Exile
Prof. Magda Teter (Fordham University)
Scholars have long distinguished between modern antisemitism and premodern anti-Judaism, suggesting that modern antisemitism is inflected by politics and racial ideology, while premodern anti-Judaism is shaped by theological concerns. In this talk, Magda Teter will consider how modern and contemporary antisemitism and antizionism are inflected both by contemporary political context and centuries-old, theologically grounded habits of thinking about Jews. The talk will focus on the contemporary reverberations of the theology of Jewish exile and suffering as punishment for sins.
Magda Teter is a Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of five books: Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (2005), Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (2011), Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (2020), Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023), Blood Libels, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives (2025), and dozens of articles in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Polish. Her essays have also appeared in the New York Review of Books, Public Seminar, the JTA, and others. Her book Blood Libel won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award, the George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association, and the Ronald Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. Teter has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, HF Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Cullman Center at the NYPL, the NEH, and others. Teter has served as the VP for Publications at the AJS and as the President of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
Eine Veranstaltung mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern.
Datum: 5. November 2026, 18 Uhr c.t.
Ort: LMU, Historicum, Raum K 001
