Dr. Daniel Feldman

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Daniel Feldman, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer, Department of English Literature and Linguistics 

Bar-Ilan University

Ramat Gan, 5290002

Israel

 

דניאל פלדמן מרצה, החוג לספרות אנגלית, אונ׳ בר-אילן

Senior Lecturer of English Literature at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he focuses on Holocaust literature and children’s literature. His book Poesis in Extremis, co-written with Efraim Sicher (Bloomsbury, 2024), addresses poetry written by Jews under Nazi persecution during the Holocaust.

 

Publications

A. Articles

“Depicting the Holocaust for American Orthodox Jewish Children in Olomeinu.” Studies in American Jewish Literature. Forthcoming, 2024.

“Decolonization of Children’s Adventure Fiction in Novels by Janusz Korczak and Uri Orlev.” Libri liberorum. Forthcoming, 2024.

“Reading Time in Youth Novels about the Warsaw Ghetto.” Teksty drugie (2024): 290-305. DOI: 10.18318/td.2024.en.1.16.

“Reading Poison: Fictions of Science in Nazi Children’s Propaganda.” Children’s Literature in Education, forthcoming 2021.

“The Holocaust as Adventure in Uri Orlev's Children's Books.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 58 no. 4, 2020, p. 3-11. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/bkb.2020.0064.

“Address Unknown: German Children's Literature about Refugees.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 45 no. 2, 2020, p. 124-144. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chq.2020.0015.

“Children’s Play in the Shadow of War.” American Journal of Play, vol. 11, no. 3, 2019, pp. 208-307. Link.

“Honoring the Child’s Right to Respect: Janusz Korczak as Holocaust Educator.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 40 no. 2, 2016, p. 129-143. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/uni.2016.0015.

“Playing with the Past in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic.” Children’s Literature, vol. 43 no. 1, 2015, pp. 84-107. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2015.0025.

“Poetry in Question: The Interrogative Lyric of Yeats’s Major Poems.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, vol. 12, no. 1, 2014, pp. 87-105. https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2014.0008.

“Reading Games in Auschwitz: Play in Holocaust Youth Literature.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 38, no. 3, 2014, pp. 360-380. doi:10.1353/uni.2014.0031.

“Writing Nothing: Negation and Subjectivity in the Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan and Dan Pagis.” Comparative Literature, vol. 66, no. 4, Fall 2014, pp. 438-58. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2823874

B. Books

With Efraim Sicher. Poetry in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust. Bloomsbury, 2024. ISBN 9798765100202. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765100219.

C. Book Chapters

“Translating Oral Memory and Visual Media in Ida Fink’s ‘Traces.’” Translated Memories, edited by Bettina Hofmann and Ursula Reuter, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, pp. 31-50.

D. Book Reviews

Review of Darr, Yael, The Nation and the Child: Nation Building in Hebrew Children’s Literature, 1930–1970. International Research in Children’s Literature, vol. 14, no. 1, 2021, pp. 112-114. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0383

Review of Paik, ed., Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered. Common Knowledge, vol. 19, 2013, pp. 573-74. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2282026

Curriculum Vitae

1. Education

1997-2001    Columbia University, B.A. Summa cum laude

2003-2006    Yale University, M.A., M.Phil., Comparative Literature

2006-2011    Yale University, Ph.D., Comparative Literature

            Dissertation: “Unrepeatable: Fiction in the Face of Disaster”

            Advisor: Professor Katie Trumpener; Committee readers: Professor Geoffrey Hartman, Professor Katie Clark, Professor Marci Shore

 

2. Professional Experience

 

2.1 Bar-Ilan University — 2011-present

2011-2013    Adjunct instructor

2013-        Lecturer (assistant professor)

2021        Senior Lecturer

 

2.2 Other professional service

2001-2002    Educator, Stiftung Lauder, Würzburg and Berlin, Germany 

2011-2012    Visiting speaker, Yad Vashem International School of Holocaust Studies

2014-2015    Member, Committee on Prizes for Pedagogic Excellence, BIU

2014-        Academic peer reviewer, The Lion and the Unicorn, USA

2016-        Member, literature program undergraduate committee, Department of English, BIU

 

3. Active Participation and Presentation of Papers in Scientific Meetings

Oct. 2001     “Topographies of Memory in Contemporary Poland,” Fairleigh Dickinson University School of International Affairs, New Jersey

May 2004    “‘Ruins Even before They Crumble’: Musealization of Oswiecim,” University of Konstanz, Germany

March 2007    “Around the Apocalypse: Appelfeld’s Anti-Catastrophic Poetics,” American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico

Dec. 2007    “Stolen Childhoods: A Response,” Modern Languages Assoc., Chicago, IL 

Jan. 2008    “Writing Against the Event,” Richard Stockton College, New Jersey

Feb. 2008    “Subject and Subjectivity in Atrocity Literature,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

March 2008    “Reading Survivor Testimony in Truth Commission Archives,” American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, CA

Dec. 2008    “Screening Communism, Adapting Independence: Wajda’s Andrzejewski Films,” Modern Languages Association, San Francisco, CA

March 2009    “Atrocity Fiction and the View from Nowhere,” American Comparative Literature Association, Boston, MA

March 2012    “Ida Fink’s ‘Key Game’ and Literary Play of the Shoah,”  American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, RI

June 2012    “Nazi Ideology and Thinking for our Time,” Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Feb. 2013    “Comparative Perspectives on Israeli and Diasporic Jewish Memory,” Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem

Oct. 2013    “Of Butterflies and Boots: What do Children Understand of the Holocaust?” Bar Ilan University

Nov. 2013    “The View from Nowhere: Multiperspectival Memory in Holocaust Literature,” Tel Aviv University

Jan. 2014    “Play in Children’s Holocaust Literature,” Tilburg University and the Huizinga Institute, Amstelveen, The Netherlands

March 2014    “Topography to Topos: Converting Sites of History into Museums,” American Comparative Literature Association, New York, NY

June 2015    “Light Games and Dark History: Play in Young Adult Fiction about the Holocaust,” Children’s Literature Association, Richmond, VA

July 2016     "War Games: Children’s Play in Conflict Literature," Children and War, Salzburg, Austria

June 2017    “No Place — Like Home: Children’s Refugee Literature,”  Children’s Literature             Association, Tampa, FL

July 2017    “Story and Statistics: Factual Evidence,” American Comparative Literature Association,         Utrecht, Netherlands

March 2018    “Reading Poison: The Fiction of Science in Nazi Children’s Literature,” University of         Antwerp, Belgium

June 2018    “Refugee Children at Sea: Kinder auf der Flucht 1939 and 2015-17,” Children’s             Literature Association, San Antonio, TX 

Nov. 2018    “Spiel in Jugendliteratur über den Holocaust,” Eva Tenzer Lectures, Humboldt             University of Berlin, Germany

Aug. 2019    “Voicing the Ineffable: Holocaust as Adventure in Uri Orlev’s Fiction,”  Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Stockholm, Sweden

July 2020 “Trauma as Adventure: Survival and Reading” University of Antwerp Summer School, Antwerp, Belgium  *Invited keynote lecture

March 2021 “The Child in Time: Refugee Narratives in Children’s Books.” The Child and the Book Conference, Freie Universität Berlin *Invited keynote lecture

 

4. Academic and Professional Awards

2000    Dean Hawkes Prize, Achievement in the Humanities

2000     Phi Beta Kappa, early election

2001    Gerdy Prize, Outstanding Contributions to Campus Publications

2003    Ann Lowry Nelson and Lowry Nelson, Jr. Fellowship (2003-2006)

2004    Graduate School Language Fellowship, for study in Krakow, Poland

2005     European Studies Research Council, Research Grant for Poland

2006    John Enders Fellowship, Dissertation Grant

2006    Prize Teaching Fellowship, Award for Excellent Graduate Student Instructors

2007    Prize Teaching Fellowship, Award for Excellent Graduate Student Instructors

2011    Yad Vashem Institute for Holocaust Studies, Junior Fellowship, declined

2013    Bar-Ilan University Outstanding Lecturer

2016    Children’s Literature Association Honor Article (for "Reading Games in Auschwitz")

2016    Honorable mention, Children’s Literature Association’s Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Award

2018   International Honor Award, Children’s Literature Association (for “Refugee Children at Sea”)

 

4. Membership in Professional Organizations

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

Children’s Literature Association (ChLA)

Modern Languages Association (MLA)

International Research Society in Children's Literature (IRSCL)

 

5. Grants

2006    Ford Foundation, $120,000 Grant for a two-year feasibility study on archiving truth commission documents at the Yale Law School and Yale University Library

2015    Bar-Ilan Faculty Grant

2015     Children’s Literature Association Faculty Research Grant

2015    Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

2020.   Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

 

6. M.A. and Ph.D. Students Supervised

M.A. 

2015    Cynthia Blank (Rector’s Prize winner), Sara Goldberg, Francine Makbili, Alexandra Katz

2016    Tom Livny, Helena Stern

2017    Olga Chefranova, Baraah Abdelhai, Anne-Marie Novak

2018    Michal Gal Harari, Leah Hartman (Rector’s Prize winner)

 

Ph.D.     None

 

6. Research Interests and Languages

 

6.1 Research Languages: English, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish, German

6.2 Research Interests: Holocaust literature, children’s literature of atrocity, memory and fiction, literary theory