Susanne Klingenstein
© Ilene Perlman
Susanne Klingenstein
Susanne Klingenstein, born in Baden-Baden in 1959, is a literary historian and research fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. She has published studies on the identity formation of Jewish literary scholars, translated major texts from Yiddish, written a book on Martin Walser and most recently published the study Mendele der Buchhändler. Leben und Werk des Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh. Eine Geschichte der jiddischen Literatur zwischen Berdichev und Odessa, 1835-1917.
Susanne Klingenstein, born in Baden-Baden in 1959, is a literary historian and research fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. She has published studies on the identity formation of Jewish literary scholars, translated major texts from Yiddish, written a book on Martin Walser and most recently published the study Mendele der Buchhändler. Leben und Werk des Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh. Eine Geschichte der jiddischen Literatur zwischen Berdichev und Odessa, 1835-1917.
PUBLICATIONS
Latest first
Year of Publication: 2022
Susanne KlingensteinYear of Publication: 2022
Not Everyone Can Be a Scholar
People have laughed and thought, told stories and been educated in Yiddish since the High Middle Ages. On the last pages of scholarly books we find recipes, spells and prayers. Copies of rhymed epics were circulated for communal recital. A bundle of documents from Cairo dating to 1382 testifies to the fact that Jewish people were quite familiar with German literature and adapted it in a...