Judd L Teller (Yehuda-Leib[1][2]) (May 5, 1912 – May 3, 1972) was an American author,[3] social historian, lecturer,[4] poet,[5][2] and held many professional posts in Jewish community life.
[7] His mother and grandmother, with young Judd and his brother ran a store from their home which was outside the Jewish Quarter of the city.
Their customers and neighbors included the postmaster and his wife and the priest, the latter two of whom made some effort to protect the family from the frequent attempts to extract, enslave and rape Jews, perpetrated by other neighbors, by soldiers in marauding armies during advances and retreats, and by nationalist zealots of the Polish Independence movement.
Their sometimes neighborly protectors could not, however, prevent the looting of their supplies and did not protect the Jewish Quarter of the city from arson and other large scale attacks.
[7] He studied at City College of New York,[1] and his Masters and Doctorate degrees at Columbia University in psychology,[4] Ph.D.[6] He later traveled on assignment in Europe, Asia and Africa.