ד"ר Daniel Feldman

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Senior Lecturer

Department of English Literature and Linguistics

Bar-Ilan University

Ramat Gan, 5290002

Israel

Daniel.Feldman@biu.ac.il

 

דניאל פלדמן מרצה בכיר, בלשנות וספרות 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

“Migrating Memory in Children’s Literature of the Holocaust,” Holocaust Studies, 2026. Forthcoming.

“Depicting the Holocaust for American Orthodox Jewish Children in Olomeinu.” Studies in American Jewish Literature, vol. 43, no. 2, 2024, pp. 252-270.

“Decolonization of Children’s Adventure Fiction in Novels by Janusz Korczak and Uri Orlev.” Libri liberorum vol. 60, 2024, pp. 45-53.

“Reading Time in Youth Novels about the Warsaw Ghetto.” Teksty drugie, no 1., 2024, pp. 290-305, doi: 10.18318/td.2024.en.1.16.

“Reading Poison: Science and Story in Nazi Children’s Propaganda.” Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 53, 2022, pp. 199-220, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-021-09454-9.

“The Holocaust as Adventure in Uri Orlev's Children's Books.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 58, no. 4, 2020, pp. 3-11, https://doi.org/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, https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2020.0015.

“Children’s Play in the Shadow of War.” American Journal of Play, vol. 11, no. 3, 2019, pp. 288-307. Link.

“Honoring the Child’s Right to Respect: Janusz Korczak as Holocaust Educator.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 40, no. 2, 2016, pp. 129-143, https://doi.org/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, https://doi.org/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, 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. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765100219.

C. Book Chapters

“Literary Encounters of German Youth with Israel.” Ein neues Kapitel? Jüdische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur nach 1945. Edited by Hadassah Stichnothe, Winter, 2025. Forthcoming.

 

“Anglophone Adult Holocaust Literature in the Twenty-First Century.” 21st Century Literature and the Holocaust. Multilingual Perspectives. Edited by Sławomir Jacek Żurek. Peter Lang, 2025.

 

“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-2282026Curriculum 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

 

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; GIF, Israel-Germany

2016- Undergraduate literature coordinator, Department of English, BIU

2024-25 Visiting Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea

3. 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

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

Nov. 2013 “The View from Nowhere: Multiperspectival Memory,” 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 and Conflict Literature,” University of 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,” Lisa Tetzner Lectures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.  *Invited keynote lecture

Feb. 2019 “Past Perfect: Translating the Polish Postwar Fiction of Ida Fink,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Georgetown University

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

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

March 2021 “Adventure & Trauma in Children's Literature,” The Child and the Book Conference, Freie Universität Berlin *Invited keynote lecture

March 2023 “Comparative Approaches to 21st-Century Anglophone Holocaust Literature.” *Organizer, with Robert Eaglestone and Sarah Minslow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, London, 27-29 March 2023

June 2023 “ A New Orphanhood: Young Adult Fiction in an Age of Climate Refugees,” Children’s Literature Association, Seattle, WA

July 2023 “Youth Novels about the Warsaw Ghetto,” Lisa Tetzner Lectures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.  *Invited keynote lecture

August 2023 “Wilding the City: Domesticated Nature in Israeli Picturebooks,” Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Santa Barbara

March 2024 “Literarische Begegnungen der deutschen Jugend mit Israel / Literary Encounters of German Youth with Israel,” University of Bremen, Germany

December 2024 “The Value of Education and the Education of Values,” Sogang University, Korea

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   Honor award, 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 and Editorial Boards

International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL)

Lion and the Unicorn Editorial Board member, reader for IRCL, Libri et liberi, Research on Diversity in Children’s Literature, Seminar

5. Research Grants

2006 Ford Foundation, Grant for on archiving truth commission documents at the Yale Law School and Yale University Library, $120,000

2015 Bar-Ilan Faculty Grant

2015 Children’s Literature Association Faculty Research Grant

2015-18  Israel Science Foundation, “Ida Fink: Holocaust Literature from the Margins,” 360,000 NIS / ~$100,000

2020-22   Israel Science Foundation, “Is there a Poetics of the Holocaust?,” 360,000 NIS / ~$100,000

6. Graduate 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)

2019 Dan Cern

2020 Netanel Kleinman

2023 Zoraya Shubaeva, Huda Zehalka

2024 Noga Ella Shahar

Ph.D. Michael Ben-Haim, Maaian Arditi (2024-)

Postdoc. Edward Evans (2022-23)

6. Research Interests and Languages

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

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