Curriculum Vitae

Pawel Maciejko DPhil (Oxon)

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Department of Jewish Thought

Mount Scopus

91905 Jerusalem

Israel

e-mail: pawel@mscc.huji.ac.il

EDUCATION

2000 – 2004	University of Oxford, DPhil in Modern History Degree awarded on 17 July 2004
1997-1998	University of Oxford, MSt in Jewish Studies
1990-1994	University of Warsaw, MA in Philosophy

WORK EXPERIENCE

2006-present	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish Thought, Lecturer
2004-2005	The University of Chicago, Visiting Fellow on the Committee for Jewish Studies
1999-2000	Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept. of Jewish Thought, Visiting Research Fellow
1994-1999	University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Culture

FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2010-2011	Louis Apfelbaum and Hortense Braunstein Apfelbaum Fellowship, Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2008	Golda Meir Fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005-2008	Mandel Fellowship, Scholion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005	Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
Summer 2005	Ernst Mach Stipendium, Österreichischer Austauschdienst, Vienna
2004-2005	The Whiting Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of Chicago
2003	Starun Senior Scholarship, Hertford College, University of Oxford
2003	Research Fellowship, Center for Jewish History, New York /declined/
2002-2003	Research Fellowship, Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur an der Universität Leipzig
July-October 2001	DAAD Graduate Research Scholarship, Freie Universität Berlin
2000-2003	Rawnsley Scholarship, University of Oxford
2000	Scatcherd European Scholarship, University of Oxford /declined/
1997-1998	Soros/Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholarship, University of Oxford

GRANTS, ACADEMIC AWARDS, AND PRIZES

2010-2015	‘Theologies of conversions to Christianity in early modern east-central European Judaism’, European Research Council
2010	The Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in Humanistic Disciplines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2009-2011	‘Blood Libel Discourse in Poland-Lithuania’, Individual Research Grant, Israel Science Foundation
2009	Vigevani Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2008	Ritual Murder and Witchcraft Accusations in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania, Research Grant from the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism
2003	Vice-Chancellor’s Award, University of Oxford
2002	Segal Prize, University of Oxford
2000-2003	The Overseas Research Award, University of Oxford
2000	Lakritz Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1997	Prize of the Foundation for the Development of Polish Science
1996	Prize of the Rector of the University of Warsaw

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

(past five years only)

            Invited presentations

20-24 June 2010	5th Jerusalem Summer School in Jewish Studies and Comparative Religion: Hasidism, Continental Pietism, and the Religious Awakening. “Pietistic missions to the Jews in East-Central Europe”, Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
5 May 2010	Jonathan Frankel Memorial Lecture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Was Sabbatianism a Messianic Movement?”
April 2010	Series of lectures on Kabbalah in Poland in the 17th century, the Jagiellonian University of Kraków.
February 2010	Series of Lectures on Christians in the eyes of the Jews in the early modern period, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
23-25 August 2009	History of Reading across Cultures; The Jewish Book and Its Readers in Early Modern Europe, Harvard University
22 September 2008	Along the Road to Esau: Integration, Modernism, and Anarchism, Università di Siena, “Charlatans and False Messiahs’
18-19 May 2008	Jewish Mystical and Messianic Movements in their Social and Religious Contexts: The Eastern European Case, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Ohio State University, “The Sermons of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz”
4-5 October 2006	The Crucibles of the Selves, University of Utah, “Sabbatianism and the Public Sphere”
26 January 2006	Israeli Forum for the Study of the 18th-Century, “Ritual murder accusations and witchcraft trails in 18th-century Poland-Lithuania”
12 December 2005	YIVO/Center for Jewish History, New York, Dina Abramowicz Memorial Lecture, “Perspectives on Frankism”
22 November 2005	Universität Wien, Institut für Judaistik, „Die Frankistische Bewegung und die Blutbeschuldigung gegen Juden“
10 December 2004	University of Utah, the Middle East Center, “Orientalism at Frank’s Court in Offenbach”
19 September 2004	Duke/University of North Carolina Seminar on Jewish Studies, “Moravian Missions to the Jews in Eastern Europe”

            Conference presentations

19-21 December 2010	41th Annual Conference of Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Roundtable discussion on new perspectives in research on early modern Jewry
20-22 December 2009	41th Annual Conference of Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, ‘Cet obscur objet du desir: Jacob Frank and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa’
17-19 March 2009	Between Coexistence and Divorce: 25 Years of Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry and Polish–Jewish Relations, Jerusalem, ‘The Interchange between Armenians and Sabbatians in Lwów (1666-1759)
21-23 December 2008	40th Annual Conference of Association for Jewish Studies, Washington DC, ‘Messianism and Exile in the Works of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz’
16-18 December 2007	39th Annual Conference of Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto “Was Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz a crypto-Christian?”,
27-29 May 2007	Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the Jews of East Central Europe, CEU Budapest “The Adventurers and the Cosmopolitans: Wolf Eibeschütz, Jacob Frank, and Giacomo Casanova”
12-13 March 2007	Tel Aviv – Poznań, Tel Aviv University, “Sabbatians and the Catholic Armenians of Lwów”
17-19 December 2006	38th Annual Conference of Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, The Ritual Murder Discourse in Early Modern Poland
2-3 July 2006	Early Modern Culture and Haskalah – Reconsidering the Borderlines of Modern Jewish History, Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur an der Universität Leipzig, “Print Culture and Jewish Religious Controversy: Two Debates of the 18th Century”
8-9 May 2006	Haskalah in Transition: Time, Place, and People in the Jewish Enlightenment, Wrocław, “More about the Alleged Connection between Frankism and the Haskalah”
19-21 December 2004	36th Annual Conference of Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, “The Frankists and the Emissaries of the Moravian Brethren”
23-24 August 2004	Hasidism in Poland: New Perspectives, University of Wrocław, “Erev Rav: Hasidic Reactions to Frankism”