Hanoch Teller

Known worldwide as the “King of the Storytellers,” Rabbi Hanoch Teller is a prolific author whose critically-acclaimed books (28, at last count) have sold more than 300,000 copies and are translated into five languages. The aptly-named storyteller and award-winning journalist has also written hundreds of articles that have been published in numerous newspapers and periodicals. His works have been praised for their captivating prose, painstaking research and pedagogic value, as well as their tender, profound insights into the human condition.

Born in Vienna, Austria, and raised and educated in America, Hanoch Teller displayed his passion for scholarship early on, when he was the only high-school student in New England selected to serve on the Governors’ Council of Education. He graduated from college with high honors at the age of nineteen.

The same talent that has made his books bestsellers, Hanoch Teller brings to the lectern. Dubbed by Dr. Mehmet Oz as “the greatest, and certainly the most entertaining storyteller,” he is a globe-trotting orator who has lectured before audiences on five continents, in 24 countries and 40 U.S. states, delivering a much-needed message of hope and inspiration.

Aside from teaching in several Jerusalem post-high school institutions, Hanoch Teller is also a filmmaker who has produced two documentaries that have garnered a shelf-full of prizes and nominations, and have been televised and screened in many countries.

For decades, Hanoch Teller has also been a sought-after guide at the Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. His sweeping scholarship and sensitivity, and uncanny gift for conveying history through personal stories, transform the infinite banality of horror into an intensely personal encounter that participants declare life-changing and unforgettable. It is this background that led to his latest and most universally celebrated book, Heroic Children.

Rabbi Hanoch Teller continues to study in the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem, where he lives with his wife, Aidel, and their children and grandchildren.