Adam Teller, Ph.D.

Adam Teller is Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Brown University in the USA. Born in London, he studied at Oxford University and completed his graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in the history of the Jews in eastern Europe.   He taught at the University of Haifa in Israel for 15 years before moving to Brown in 2010.    

 

Adam has written widely on the economic, social, and cultural history of the Jews in early modern Poland-Lithuania.  He has written three books on the subject and edited (or co-edited) a further four.  He is the author of forty academic articles in English, Hebrew, Polish, and German.

 

His new book, Ransom and Relief: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, which deals with how the Jewish world organized in order to help the waves of Polish Jewish refugees that spread out across Europe, Asia, and North Africa following the Khmelnytsky uprising of 1648, was published by Princeton University Press in 2020. 

 

Adam was a member of the core academic team that created the exhibit at the prize-winning POLIN Museum for the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and is currently a member of the museum’s Academic Advisory Council.