Really enjoyed being interviewed on my favorite podcast #infectioushustorians with Lee Mordechai and @MerleEisenberg. Episode is now live!

Just got my copy of the much-awaited (& astoundingly quickly-written) "Christian Supremacy" by @MagdaTeter (available May 16 Princeton University Press), and already engrossed in reading it.

The AHA has released a statement condemning the FLDOE’s recent ruling that "would eliminate almost entirely the history of LGBTQ+ people from the Florida social studies curriculum." #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory historians.org/news-and-advoc…

New Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies fellowship theme year announced, on "Jews & Health"! Get those applications ready!

"Einbinder brings the force of her sensitive reading as a scholar of literature to bear on a variety of different writings from the Great Italian Plague of 1630-31." Joshua Teplitsky, Assoc. Prof. of Modern Jewish History, on Susan Einbinder’s "Writing Plague" themarginaliareview.com/writing-plague/

Looking forward to stepping into this new role PennJewishStudies!

"[Einbinder’s Writing Plague] offers a valuable lens onto cultural, religious, and liturgical encounters with epidemic catastrophe by the people who survived and sought to reckon with plagues past." —Joshua Teplitsky, Assoc. Prof. of Modern Jewish History. themarginaliareview.com/writing-plague/

"Einbinder identifies a tension between the personal and the collective, the public and private, as a core constitutive element of the plague texts before her, and as a phenomenon that call for careful historicization and interpretation." —Joshua Teplitsky themarginaliareview.com/writing-plague/

I see it's time for a medievalist intervention in the latest twist in COVID politics. People, take some time to read this superb piece: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…. These myths need to be called out for what they are. And nipped in the bud.

The mythbusting article Monica H Green, PhD #VaxTheWorld is sharing here was written by our faculty member and new program director Joshua Teplitsky Joshua Teplitsky Penn History: "Imagined Immunities: Medieval Myths and Modern Histories of Jews and the Black Death" (Alyson Shontell Review). Check it out!

Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and

Joshua Teplitsky AJS Penn Press Slight correction: the "locked" icon still shows up, but if you click on the "PDF" tab, the article shows up.

I STRONGLY condemn my brother's deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid being engineered for ethnic targeting. rfkhumanrights.org/press/statemen…

For those curious re deep roots of JFK JR's antisemitic vaccine conspiracy, check out this marvelous Joshua Teplitsky piece from AJS Review: "Imagined Immunities: Medieval Myths and Modern Histories of Jews and the Black Death" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article… Penn Press AJS

Monica H Green, PhD #VaxTheWorld Thanks Monica H Green, PhD #VaxTheWorld! This fantastic article by Joshua Teplitsky is now freely available for the next 30 days, thanks to Penn Press!

Excited to announce a postdoc opportunity at Penn's Jewish Studies Program PennJewishStudies --applications welcome!

Join us next Monday 2/5 at 5:15pm for a webinar with Prof. Derek Penslar (Harvard) on “The 1948 War in the Eyes of the World: From the Local to the Global" tinyurl.com/1948-Penslar