Author: Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal

An analysis of American witch-hunting, from its Puritan roots to the Satanism panic of the 1980s, demonstratesthat widespread witch hysteria does not take root until three things occur.

The first installment in a two-part series focused on the Esopus Wars of the seventeenth century.

Professor Teplitsky is the most recent winner of the Baron Book Prize for best book in Jewish Studies, which requires the work to be the author’s first scholarly book in any area of Jewish studies in that respective calendar year.