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Syracuse University |
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Ken Frieden |
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Ken Frieden has been the B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University since 1993. His research and teaching center on Yiddish and Hebrew literature. He has published widely on nineteenth-century authors in Eastern Europe, including his scholarly book Classic Yiddish Fiction (1995) on S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Alecheim, and I. L. Peretz. For general readers, Frieden edited Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Alecheim, and I. L. Peretz (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004), which includes his translations of Abramovitsh and Peretz. Ken Frieden’s recent articles include “Traditions and Translations: Hebrew, the Bible, and Their Afterlife in Modern Literature” (in Arion), “Joseph Perl’s Escape from Biblical Epigonism through Parody of Hasidic Writing” (in the AJS Review), and “Epigonism after Abramovitsh and Bialik” (forthcoming in Studia Rosenthaliana). He has also contributed major entries to Encyclopedia Britannica (“Yiddish Literature”), to Encyclopaedia Judaica (“S. Y. Abramovitsh” and “I. L. Peretz”), and to the Dictionary of Yiddish Literary Biography (“S. Y. Abramovitsh”). Frieden plans to lead a group trip to the Ukraine in May 2006, supported by the Holstein Family Endowment. He is also active as a clarinetist, and he has been asked to perform klezmer music and read Yiddish stories for Syracuse University alumni in New York City and Los Angeles.
Courses: Judaic Literature Religion, Literature and Film Advanced Hebrew
TEACHING:
B. G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies and Full Professor, Department of English, Department of Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics, and Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 1993-present Visiting Professor, Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Spring 2000 Visiting Professor, Departments of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of California at Davis, Spring 1999 Visiting Professor, Department of Hebrew Literature, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel, Spring 1997 Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Languages and Literatures, Emory University, 1990-93 Visiting Associate Professor in Hebrew Literature, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany, Spring 1992
BOOKS:
Freud’s Dream of Interpretation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990).
Genius and Monologue (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985).
EDITED VOLUMES:
Borderlines: Judaic Literature and Culture in Eastern Europe, Special Issue, Symposium 57 (Fall 2003), edited by Ken Frieden.
Judaic Literature: Identity, Displacement, and Destruction, Special Issue, Symposium 52 (Winter 1999), edited by Ken Frieden.
ARTICLES in PERIODICALS:
“Joseph Perl’s Escape from Biblical Epigonism through Parody of Hasidic Writing,” AJS Review 29 (2005): 265-82. “Traditions and Translations: Hebrew, the Bible, and Their Afterlife in Modern Literature,” Arion 13 (Fall 2005): 163-77. “‘Nusah Mendele’ be-mabat bikoreti” [in Hebrew; “A Critical Look at ‘Mendele’s nusah’”], Dappim le-mehkar be-sifrut 14-15 (Haifa), Fall 2005. “Parodia ve-hagiographia: sippurim hasidiim-keveyakhol shel I. L. Peretz.” [in Hebrew; “Parody and Hagiography: Peretz’s ‘As-If’ Hasidic Stories”], Chulyot [Journal of Research on Yiddish Literature and Its Relationships to Hebrew Literature, Haifa] 7 (2002): 45-52. “A Century in the Life of Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye,” The B. G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies, New Series, Lecture 1 [1993-94] (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 26pp. “New(s) Poems: Y. L. Teller’s Lider fun der tsayt(ung),” AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies 15 (1990): 269-89. “Sholem Aleichem: Monologues of Mastery,” Modern Language Studies 19 (1989): 25-37. “I. B. Singer’s Monologues of Demons,” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 5 (1985): 263-68.
ARTICLES in EDITED VOLUMES:
“Epigonism after Abramovitsh and Bialik,” Studia Rosenthaliana (Amsterdam, forthcoming) Entries on S. Y. Abramovitsh and I. L. Peretz for the revised edition of Encyclopedia Judaica (forthcoming) Entry on S. Y. Abramovitsh for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Joseph Sherman, volume on Yiddish literature (forthcoming). “Tradition and Innovation: How Peretz Made Literary History,” volume on I. L. Peretz, ed. Benny Kraut (Queens College, forthcoming). “Yiddish Literature” entry (25 pages) in the online and CD-ROM version of Encyclopaedia Britannica (2004), also to be included in the forthcoming 16th print edition. S. Y. Abramovitsh’s The Little Man (Odessa, 1864-1865) and the Beginnings of Modern Yiddish Fiction,” translated into Italian for Il romanzo, edited by Franco Moretti, volume 3: Storia e geographia (Torino: Einaudi, 2002), 573-579. Introduction to Sholem Aleichem’s Nineteen to the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things, trans. Ted Gorelick and ed. Ken Frieden (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998). “Teller’s First and Last Visits to Sigmund Freud,” in the Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1990), Division C, vol. 2, pp. 85-92. “Intertextual and Interlinguistic Approaches to Agnon’s Writing,” in Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation, ed. Leon Yudkin (New York: Markus Wiener, 1988), pp. 69-75.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Itsik N. Gottesman’s Defining the Yiddish Nation: The Jewish Folklorists of Poland (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003), in AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, forthcoming. Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik, ed. David Assaf (Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2002), in POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry 18 (2005): 405-407. Leah Garrett’s Journeys beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), in Slavic Review 63 (Summer 2004): 392-93. Mikhail Krutikov’s Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), in Slavic Review 62 (Spring 2003): 217-18. Allan Nadler’s The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), in Religious Studies Review 25 (April 1999): 209. Chana Kronfeld’s On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), in Symposium 52 (Winter 1999): 283-84. Joseph Perl’s Revealer of Secrets, trans. Dov Taylor (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997), in Shofar 16 (1998): 118-20. “The Father of Modern Yiddish Literature.” Review of Ruth R. Wisse’s I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991), in The Forward, 19 June 1992: 11.
ACADEMIC AWARDS and HONORS:
Harry Starr Fellowship at the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard, 2003-2004 Ray Smith Symposium for the Conference on Eastern Europe, 2001-2002 Visiting Scholarship, Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1989 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grant, 1988-89 Yad Hanadiv/Barecha Fellowship for Research at Hebrew University, 1988-89 NEH Grant for Travel to Collections, 1987-88 Lady Davis Fellowship Trust Post-Doctoral Research Grant, 1985-86 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grant, 1985-86 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Fellowship, 1985-86 ACLS Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1985
PROFESSIONAL LECTURES:
“Tradition and Innovation: How Peretz Made Literary History,” I. L. Peretz Symposium at Queens College, March 2005 “Perl’s Escape from Epigonism Through Parody,” European Association for Jewish Studies Colloquium, Oxford, July 2004 “Think Yiddish, Write Hebrew: Joseph Perl’s Hasidic Voices,” Second Annual Yiddish Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, May 2004 “J. Gordin’s Reading and Rewriting of Hamlet,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature Convention, Syracuse, May 2004 “Beyond Melitza: Joseph Perl's Parodies of Hasidic Hebrew,” Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, April 2004 “Y. Gordin’s Der meturef and Shakespeare’s Hamlet,” Association for Jewish Studies Convention, Boston, December 2003 “1864/1886: S. Y. Abramovitsh’s Modern Beginnings in Yiddish and in Hebrew,” Association for Jewish Studies Convention, Washington, D.C., December 2001 “Parody and Hagiography: Peretz’s ‘As-If’ Hasidic Stories” (in Hebrew), Departmental Seminar in the Dept. of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Israel, March 1999 “Beyond the Nusah of Bialik and Abramovitsh” (in Hebrew), Keynote Lecture at the Annual Conference of Professors of Hebrew Literature, University of Haifa, Israel, March 1999 “Peretz’s Early Parodies of Hasidic Hagiography,” Lecture to the Interdepartmental Committee on Yiddish Studies, Columbia University, New York, February 1999 “How Mendele Translated from Yiddish to Hebrew,” with Robert Alter as Chair and Respondent, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 1998 "Oral Torah: Sholem Aleichem as Performer of His Monologues” (in Yiddish), Beit Sholem Aleichem, Tel Aviv, June 1997 “Parody and Intertextuality in Yiddish Literature” (in Hebrew), Dept. of Hebrew Literature, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, May 1997 “Shooting Tevye and Fiddling on the Roof,” Jewish Studies Program, Colgate University, Hamilton, April 1996 “The Suppression of Yiddish in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Conference on Patterns of Exclusion at the Maison Suger, Paris, June 1995 “Sholem Aleichem, Peretz, and Classic Yiddish Literature in Poland,” Philosophical Institute at the University of Poznan, Poland, May 1995 “Origins of Modern Yiddish Narrative” (in German), Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, February 1995 “Stealing Across the Hebrew-Yiddish Border,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Claremont, March 1994
SESSIONS ORGANIZED, DISCUSSED, or CHAIRED:
“Revisiting Hasidic and Maskilic Hasidic Hebrew Writing,” Organizer, Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2005. Proposed, Organized, and Directed the Ray Smith Symposium at Syracuse University, Borderlines: Judaic Literature and Culture in Eastern Europe, 6-8 April 2002. “Border Politics in Hebrew and Yiddish,” Organizer; Chaired by Robert Alter, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 1998.
PERFORMANCES:
Clarinetist and Reader with the Ellis Island Band, “An Evening of Yiddish Literature and Klezmer Music,” SULA, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, December 2005 Clarinetist and Reader with Pete Rushefsky, “Yiddish Stories and Klezmer Music: From Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side,” Lubin House, New York City, December 2004. Clarinetist with Marc Safran, Simhat Torah Celebration of Temple Israel in Vestal, New York, September 2002 Clarinetist and Leader of the Wandering Klezmorim, Brysk-King Wedding, Elmira, New York, September 2002 Clarinetist, Klezmer Band Leader, and Assistant Musical Director, The Dybbuk, Syracuse Stage, April 2002 Clarinetist in the Wandering Klezmorim, Café Tmol Shilshom, Jerusalem, June 1997 Clarinetist and Yiddish Vocalist in the Wandering Klezmorim, Ninth Annual Klezmer Festival in Safed, Israel, July 1996 Clarinetist and Vocalist in a Klezmer Demonstration with Boris Rosenthul, Gymnasium der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin, June 1995 Director and Clarinetist in the School of Music Klezmer Ensemble, Crouse Auditorium School of Music Convocation at Syracuse University, October 1994 Clarinetist in the Wandering Klezmorim, Seventh Annual Klezmer Festival in Safed, Israel, July 1994 |
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