Magda Teter

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A 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

Bio and morehttp://thebloodlibeltrail.org/more-from-the-author/
Twitter (for now)twitter.com/MagdaTeter
Magda TeterApr 8, 2025
Here's an agreement Cambridge U Press wants me to sign re: my 1st book. The rationale given in an FAQ: AI is here to stay, might as well have your work included, it will help fight disinformation by providing reliable information, or your work will be doomed into oblivion. A citation, from now on, amounts to nothing but an acknowledgment of existence. Reading not required. Thoughts?
Magda TeterSep 26, 2024
Excited about this coming out in March 2025: "Blood Libels, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives"
https://ceupress.com/book/blood-libels-hostile-archives
Blood Libels, Hostile Archives

CEUPress
Magda TeterJun 22, 2024
Reading Stefan Zweig's memoir. The foreword is very poignant, resonating also today.
Magda TeterJun 17, 2024
From Tom Tomorrow about the congestion pricing debacle and Hochul's shameful intervention.
Magda TeterJan 3, 2024
And an opinion piece on the question of antisemitism at Harvard and it's political weaponization
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/3/libenson-gay-resignation-not-a-win/
Gay’s Resignation Is Not a Win Against Antisemitism | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

If Gay’s resignation follows pressure from powerful figures who saw her support of Israel and protection of Jewish students as inadequate — which I fear will be how it will be remembered, regardless of whether that’s what really happened — it is not the win against antisemitism many may feel it to be.

Magda TeterJan 3, 2024
A thoughtful editorial from The Harvard Crimson https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/3/editorial-gays-troubled-tenure/
Harvard Must Learn The Lessons of President Gay’s Troubled Tenure. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

After months of rancor and turmoil, Harvard again confronts the question: What comes next?

Magda TeterDec 31, 2023
#silentsunday Seymour Mountain trail near Lake Placid 12/31/2023
Show threadMagda TeterDec 28, 2023
There is also Soviet propaganda with cultural appropriation of Jewish suffering. This is a cartoon from Al-Sharq with the iconic photograph by a Red Army photographer after the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, then reimagined in 1970 as anti-Zionist imagery. And now. Here is the original photo and below the photo cropped to the exact frame as the cartoon. end/
Show threadMagda TeterDec 28, 2023
And there is also the use of racist European imagery. Here is a comparison of Netanyahu depicted as a cannibalistic "savage" in the imagery taken directly from European iconographic vocabulary developed for the depictions of "savages" of what we now call the Global South. This iconography has its roots in the early modern period.
Show threadMagda TeterDec 28, 2023
Israel as the puppet of the US--that's in the anti-Zionist Soviet propaganda. This is now rare, instead we see more of a reverse, Israel as the sinister manipulator of the world--that goes back to the antisemitic hoax "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"