Contributors
- Contributors
Robert Adler-Peckerar is the Executive Director of Yiddishkayt, Los Angeles: Center for Yiddish and European Jewish Culture. He earned his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, concentrating on Yiddish, Hebrew, and German literature and was Assistant Professor of Jewish Culture and Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 2009 to 2012. He served as the director of education at the National Yiddish Book Center, where he was translation editor of PaknTreger Magazine and created the Steiner Summer Program in Yiddish Studies. He also created and runs the Helix Project, a travel-based immersion in European Jewish cultural history.
Maya Barzilai is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2009, and was fortunate to have Chana Kronfeld serve as a member of her dissertation committee. Under Kronfeld’s tutelage, she studied Hebrew and Yiddish modernisms as well as lyric theory, and she benefited immensely from Kronfeld’s rigorous, astute, and generous mentorship and readership. Barzilai is currently completing her book manuscript, “The Golem Condition: Imagining Creation in an Age of War,” and has published essays on Hebrew literature and German-Hebrew translation in Comparative Literature, Prooftexts, and Naharaim.
Naomi Brenner is Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Israeli culture at The Ohio State University. Her work focuses on Jewish cultural multilingualism, most recently on twentieth-century literary contact between Hebrew and Yiddish. Her articles have appeared in Prooftexts, Comparative Literature, Jewish Quarterly Review, and Nashim. From her very first day as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, she was welcomed with open arms and challenged to read closely, compassionately, and collaboratively by Professor Chana Kronfeld.
Yael Chaver teaches Yiddish language and literature in the German Department of the University of California, Berkeley (ychaver@berkeley.edu). She is the author of What Must Be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine (Syracuse University Press, 2004) and its Hebrew version, Ma she-khayavim lishko’akh: yidish ba-yishuv he-khadash (Yad Ben Tsvi, 2005), and, most recently, “Jewish Radicalism: Hebrew in Peretz Markish’s Early Poetry,” in A Captive of the Dawn: the Life and Work of Peretz Markish (Legenda, 2011). Yael works on interwar Yiddish literature and the intersection of Yiddish and Hebrew culture [End Page vi] in pre-statehood Palestine and Israel. Her work continues to be informed by the inclusive perspectives, rigorous methodology, and peerless mentoring of Chana Kronfeld.
Jordan Finkin is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A specialist in modern Jewish literatures, modernism, and Hebrew and Yiddish poetry, he is the author of numerous scholarly essays and articles and has co-edited several volumes. His first book was A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature(Penn State University Press, 2010), and subsequent book projects include studies of time and space in Jewish modernism and the creation of high-art literature in Yiddish and Hebrew. He received his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley under Professor Kronfeld’s tutelage. From her he learned that the “achieve” of scholarly rigor is the mastery of intellectual honesty and generosity.
Sheila E. Jelen is the Director of the Program in Comparative Literature and Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. The author of Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance (Syracuse University Press, 2007), Jelen has also co-edited several volumes, including, most recently, Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.) An associate editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, she is currently working on a study of the post-Holocaust popular ethnographic reception of literary and photographic works produced in the pre-Holocaust era, Salvage Poetics: Twentieth Century Jewish Literature and Photography. Chana Kronfeld was Jelen’s adviser and teacher at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in Comparative Literature in 2001. Her impact on Jelen’s work and her teaching is unquantifiable, but can be felt most acutely in Jelen’s interest in the East-European influences on modern Israeli literary consciousness...
