Ken Frieden Professor and B.G. Rudolph Chair in Judaic Studies Office: 306 Tolley Humanities Center & 505 Hall of Languages Phone: 315-443-1894 kfrieden@syr.edu

Professor Frieden teaches Judaic Literature, specializing in Yiddish and Hebrew texts. He is the Director of the Judaic Studies Program and has held the B.G. Rudolph Chair in Judaic Studies at Syracuse University since 1993. He also directs a series, Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art, at Syracuse University Press. In addition to working in the fields of Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature, he is active as a clarinetist.

Judaic Literature
Yiddish Literature in Translation
Israeli Literature and Culture
European and American Judaic Literature
Senior Seminar: Judaic Studies
Blacks and Jews in Film and Fiction

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University (1984)
M.Phil., Comparative Literature, Yale University (1983)
M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Chicago (1978)
B.A., English, Yale College (1977)

• Professor, Department of English and Textual Studies, 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, 1990-1993.
  
• Visiting Associate Professor in Hebrew Literature, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany, Spring 1992.
  
• Dorot Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Languages and Literatures, Emory University, 1985-1990.
  
• Associate Faculty, Graduate Program in Comparative Literature, Emory University, 1986-1993.
  
• Lecturer, Departments of English and Literature, Yale University, 1984-1985.
  
• Teaching Assistant (with Harold Bloom, Leslie Brisman, Maurice Natanson, and Elie Wiesel), Departments of English, Literature, and Philosophy, Yale University, 1982-1984.

Publications:

Books:

	Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz, Syracuse University Press, 2004.
	Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz State University of New York Press, 1995.
	Freud's Dream of Interpretation State University of New York Press, 1990.
	Genius and Monologue Cornell University Press, 1985.
Edited volumes:
	Aharon Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939. Trans. Betsy Rosenburg, ed. Ken Frieden. Syracuse University Press, 2001.
	Sholem Aleichem, Nineteen to the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things. Trans. Ted Gorelick, ed. Ken Frieden. Syracuse University Press, 1998.
	S. Y. Abramovitsh, Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler: Fishke the Lame and Benjamin the Third, ed. Dan Miron and Ken Frieden, trans. Ted Gorelick and Hillel Halkin. Schocken Books, 1996.
	Judaic Literature: Identity, Displacement, and Destruction, special issue, Symposium 52 (Winter 1999), edited by Ken Frieden.

Chapters in edited volumes:

• "Epigonism after Abramovitsh and Bialik," Studia Rosenthaliana (Amsterdam, forthcoming 2006).
• Entries on S. Y. Abramovitsh and I. L. Peretz for Encyclopedia Judaica (forthcoming).
• Entry on S. Y. Abramovitsh for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Joseph Sherman, volume on Yiddish literature (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.
• "Sigmund Freud's Passover Dream Responds to Theodor Herzl's Zionist Dream," in the Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, ed. Sander L. Gilman and Jack Zipes. Yale Univeristy Press, 1997.
• "A. B. Yehoshua: Arab Dissent in His Early Fiction," in Israeli Writers Consider the "Outsider," ed. Leon I. Yudkin. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993.
• "Talmudic Dream Interpretation, Freudian Ambivalence, Deconstruction," in The Dream and the Text, ed. Carol Schreier Rupprecht. State University of New York Press, 1993.
• "The Language of Demonic Possession: A Key-Word Analysis," in The Daemonic Imagination: Biblical Text and Secular Narrative, ed. Robert Detweiler. Scholars Press, 1990.
• "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.
• "'All Dreams Follow the Mouth': The Dream Interpreter as Prophet," in Criticism and Lacan: Essays and Dialogue on Language, Structure, and the Unconscious, ed. Patrick Hogan and Lalita Pandit. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
• "Intertextual and Interlinguistic Approaches to Agnon's Writing," in Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation, ed. Leon Yudkin. Markus Wiener, 1988.
  

Journal articles:

• “Traditions and Translations: Hebrew, the Bible, and Their Afterlife in Modern Literature,” Arion 13 (Fall 2005).
• "Joseph Perl's Escape from Biblical Epigonism Through Parody of Hasidic Writing," forthcoming in AJS Review, 29 (2005).
• "'Nusah Mendele' be-mabat bikoreti" (a critical reexamination of S. Y. Abramovitsh's Hebrew style), Dappim le-mehkar be-sifrut 14-15 (Haifa), forthcoming 2005.
• "Parody and Hagiography: Peretz's 'As-If' Hasidic Stories" (in Hebrew), Huliyot Journal of Research on Yiddish Literature and Its Relationships to Hebrew Literature 7 (2002).
• "Paul de Man's 'Wartime Writings' and the Critics," Zutot 1 (2001).
• Preface to "Fishke the Lame," Pakn Treger 33 (Summer 2000).
• "The Displacement of Jewish Identity in Stefan Zweig's 'Buchmendel,'" Symposium 52 (Winter 1999).
• "Oral Torah: Sholem Aleichem as a Performer of his Monologues" [in Yiddish], Yiddisher kemfer (November-December 1998).
• "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 University Press, 1997.
• "New(s) Poems: Y. L. Teller's Lider fun der tsayt(ung)," AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies 15 (1990).
• "Dream Interpreters in Exile: Joseph, Daniel, and Sigmund (Solomon)," Bucknell Review 33 (1990).
• "Psychological Depth in I. L. Peretz' Familiar Scenes," Jewish Book Annual 47 (1989-1990).
• "Sholem Aleichem: Monologues of Mastery," Modern Language Studies 19 (1989).
• "I. B. Singer's Monologues of Demons," Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 5 (1985).
• "Job's Encounters with the Adversary," Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review 14 (1985).
• "Stefan Zweig and the Nazis," A Jewish Journal at Yale 1 (1983)

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, in Religious Studies Review 25 (April 1999).
• Chana Kronfeld's On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics, in Symposium 52 (Winter 1999).
• Joseph Perl's Revealer of Secrets, trans. Dov Taylor, in Shofar 16 (1998).
• Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable, in The Journal of Religion 73 (July 1993).
• Sophie Dubnov-Erlich's The Life and Work of S. M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History, trans. Judith Vowles and ed. Jeffrey Shandler, in Judaism (Fall 1992).
• "The Father of Modern Yiddish Literature." Review of Ruth R. Wisse's I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture, in The Forward, 19 June 1992.
• "The Creation of Mendele Moykher-Sforim." Review of Selected Works of Mendele Moykher-Sforim, ed. Marvin Zuckerman, Gerald Stillman, and Marion Herbst, in The Forward, 5 June 1992.
• "Hebrew Poetry Written With a Gothic Script." Review of Leon I. Yudkin's Else Lasker-Schueler: A Study in German Jewish Literature, in The Forward, 22 May 1992.
• "A Daughter of the Mother Tongue." Review of Irena Klepfisz's A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New (1971- 1990), and Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes, in The Forward, 13 September 1991.
• "Forgetting Jerusalem." Review of Clive Sinclair's Cosmetic Effects, in The Forward, 21 September 1990.
• "Taking the Mother Tongue to Task." Review of Benjamin Harshav's The Meaning of Yiddish, in The Forward, 3 August 1990.
• "S. Y. Agnon: Master of Many Voices." Review of Gershon Shaked's Shmuel Yosef Agnon: A Revolutionary Traditionalist, in The Forward, 1 June 1990.
• Yael S. Feldman's Modernism and Cultural Transfer: Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary Bilingualism, in AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies 14 (1989).

Translations and commentaries:

• "And So It Shall Be: Was the Bible's Joseph an Early-Day Freud?" Commentary on Genesis 41 and dream interpretation in the Judaic tradition, The Forward, 14 December 2001.
• S. Y. Abramovitsh's Fishke the Lame [1869], bilingual printing of sections 1-3, in Pakn Treger 33 (Summer 2000).
• M. M. Mailes's "Artsi the Klezmer," in The Jewish Observer of Central New York, 5 December 1996.
• Jacques Derrida's "How to Avoid Speaking: Denials," in Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory, ed. Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser (Columbia University Press, 1989). Reprinted in Derrida and Negative Theology, ed. Harold Coward and Toby Foshay (State University of New York Press, 1992).
• Stephane Moses' "Patterns of Negativity in Paul Celan's 'The Trumpet Place,'" in Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory, ed. Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser. Columbia University Press, 1989.
• Walter Benjamin's "The Life of the Students," A Jewish Journal at Yale 2 (1984).

Academic Awards:

• Harry Starr Fellowship at the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard, 2003-2004
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship, 1995
• Visiting Scholarship, Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1989
• Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grant, 1985-86 and 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
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Fellowship, 1985-86
• ACLS Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships, 1985 and 1988-89
  

• Second printing of Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz, ed. Ken Frieden, Syracuse University Press, 2005.
• "A Century in the Life of Sholem Aleichem's Tevye," in When Joseph Met Molly: A Reader on Yiddish Film, ed. Sylvia Paskin. Five Leaves Press, 1999.
• Third Printing of Freud's Dream of Interpretation. SUNY Press, February 1997.Second Printing of Classic Yiddish Fiction. SUNY Press, November 1996.
• "Job's Encounters with the Adversary," in The Book of Job, ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1988.
• "Poe's Narrative Monologues," in The Tales of Poe, ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1987.
• "The Eighteenth-Century Introjection of Genius," in Poets of Sensibility and the Sublime, ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1986.
• "Conversational Pretense in 'Kubla Khan,'" in Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1986.

Selected Performances:

• Clarinetist and assistant musical director, Syracuse Stage production of "The Dybbuk," April 2002.
• Clarinet Soloist with Matvei Chekhtman, Schine Student Center, Syracuse University, September 2000.
• Clarinet Soloist with Matvei Chekhtman, Hendricks Chapel Concert, November 1999.
• Clarinet Soloist with Matvei Chekhtman, Classical Concert Series, Cornell University School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, Ithaca, July 1999.