Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Paweł Maciejko

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Department of Jewish Thought

Mount Scopus

Jerusalem, 91905

Israel

Tel. + 972 2 5881375+ 972 2 5881375

e-mail: paweł.maciejko@mail.huji.ac.il

EDUCATION:

2000-2004	University of Oxford, DPhil in Modern History
1997-1998	University of Oxford, MSt in Jewish Studies
1990-1994	University of Warsaw, MA in Philosophy

WORK EXPERIENCE:

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

2012-present	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish Thought, Joseph H. and Belle Braun Senior Lecturer in the Humanities
2010-2012	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish Thought, Senior Lecturer (tenured)
2007-2010	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish Thought, Lecturer
Visiting and Adjunct Appointments:
2013	University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies
2010-2011	University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies
2010	École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, Maître de conférences
2009	Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies
2004, 2006, 2007	Das Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Universität Leipzig, Visiting Fellow
2004-2005	The University of Chicago, Visiting Fellow at the Committee for Jewish Studies
1994-1999	University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Culture

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS:

Fellowships and Scholarships:

2013	Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellowship, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
2010-2011	Louis Apfelbaum and Hortense Braunstein Apfelbaum Fellowship, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic 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/
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/
1999-2000	Lady Davis Fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1997-1998	Soros/Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholarship, University of Oxford

Research Grants, Academic Awards, and Prizes:

2012	The Salo Baron Prize for the Best First Book in Jewish History, American Academy for Jewish Research, $5000
2010-2015	‘Theologies of conversions to Christianity in early modern east-central European Judaism’, European Research Council, €1,045,200
2010	The Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in Humanistic Disciplines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem $8000
2009-2011	‘The Blood Libel in Poland-Lithuania’, Individual Research Grant, Israel Science Foundation $90,000
2009	The Vigevani Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem $7,500
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 $8,000
2003	Vice-Chancellor’s Award, University of Oxford £1200
2002	The Segal Prize, University of Oxford, £1000
2000-2003	The Overseas Research Award, University of Oxford £16,000
2000	The Lakritz Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem $2000
1997	Prize of the Foundation for the Development of Polish Science PLN 20,000
1996	Prize of the Rector of the University of Warsaw PLN 8,000

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (selected, past 5 years only):

Invited Presentations:

24 November 2014	“Coitus Interruptus in Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz’s Va-Avo ha-Yom el ha-Ayyin”, Duke University/University of North Carolina
14 November 2013	“A Dangerous Liaison: Casanova’s Patron and the Sabbatian Kabbalists in Bohemia”, Harvard University
7 October 2013	“On the Kabbalistic Interest of Giacomo Casanova”, Columbia University
24 September 2013	“Two Kabbalists: Count Waldstein and Giacomo Casanova”, Yale University
14 March 2013	“The reading habits of Count Joseph Karl Immanuel von Waldstein”, Universiteit Antwerpen
29 November 2012	“Un Livre, un Lecteur : The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816” Centre de Recherches d’Histoire Moderne, Sorbonne, Paris
24 April 2012	“Sabbatianismus als Religiöser Nonkonformismus”, Universität Leipzig, Graduiertenkolleg
12 April 2011	“Jacob Frank and Jesus Christ” Columbia University, New York
11 February 2011	“Rabbinic reactions to Frankism”, John Hopkins University, Baltimore
5 May 2010	“Jacob Frank and the Black Madonna of Czestochowa”, Jonathan Frankel Memorial Lecture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
February 2010	“Christians in the eyes of the Jews in early modern East-Central Europe”, Lecture series, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
23-25 August 2009	“Sefer Or le-Et Erev: a history of the misunderstanding”, History of Reading across Cultures; The Jewish Book and Its Readers in Early Modern Europe, Harvard University
April 2009	“Kabbalah in Poland in the 17^th Cenury”, Lecture Series, the Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Conference Presentations:

29 April-1 May 2014	“The Rabbi and the Jesuit: on the Collaboration between Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz and Father Franciscus Haselbauer SJ”, Transformations of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe, University of Pennsylvania
18-19 November 2013	“Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz’s Va-Avo ha-Yom el ha-Ayyin”, The Hacham Tzvi, Rabbi Yaacov Emden, and Their Worlds, The Johns Hopkins University
21 January 2013	“Self-Proclaimed Jews among Christian Aristocrats of the 18th Century”, Heresy Heterodoxy, and Conversion in Early Modern Europe, Central European University, Budapest
16-18 December 2012	“ Wolf Eibeschütz and his circle of Christian Kabbalists”, 44th Annual Conference of Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago
9-13 July 2012	“Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz and the Jesuits”, The Tragic Couple: Encounters between Jews and Jesuits, Boston College
3-6 July 2011	“Keine Hure von denselben geniessen: sexual Ethics of the Prague Frankists”, Jewish Enlightenment: Haskalah and Religion," Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2-3 May 2011	“Crypto-Christianity in 18^th-century Sabbatianism”, Taking Turns: New Perspectives on Jews and Conversion, The University of Pennsylvania
20-22 December 2009	“Cet obscur objet du désir: Jacob Frank and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa”, 41th Annual Conference of Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles
17-19 March 2009	“The Interchange between Armenians and Sabbatians in Lwów (1666-1759)”, Between Coexistence and Divorce: 25 Years of Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry and Polish–Jewish Relations, Jerusalem