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Ken Frieden
Professor and B.G. Rudoph Chair in Judaic Studies and Professor of English, Religion, and Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Ph.D. 1984, Yale University
Office: 506 Hall of Languages, (315) 443-1894
Email:
kfrieden@syr.edu
INTERESTS
Books
Edited Volumes
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Journal Articles
Book Reviews
Translations & Commentaries
Reprints
Selected Performances
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.
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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.
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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, Encyclopaedia Britannica (forthcoming).
"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.
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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).
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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).
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Translations & 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).
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Reprints
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
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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.
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