CURRICULUM VITAE JORDAN FINKIN. Ph.D. Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, December 2006

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE JORDAN FINKIN Hebrew Union College, Klau Library 3101 Clifton Ave Cincinnati, OH Education Ph.D. Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, December 2006 M.S. Library and Information Science, Graduate School in Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2015 M.A. Jewish Studies, University of Chicago, June 1998 B.A. Philosophy, University of Chicago, June 1997 Employment and Teaching and Research Positions Judaica Librarian, Hebrew Union College, September 2015 present Visiting Scholar, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2012 Fall 2014 Weinstock Visiting Lecturer on Jewish Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew, University of Oxford, Fall 2006 Fall 2011; Woolf Corob Fellow in Yiddish Studies and Fellow in Modern Hebrew Literature, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Fellow, St. Cross College, Oxford Lecturer in Yiddish Taube Center for Jewish Studies, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, Fall 2004 Spring 2005 Graduate Student Instructor University of California, Berkeley, Introduction to Near Eastern Studies, Fall 2004; Readings in Modern Middle Eastern Literature, Spring 2002; Elementary Modern Hebrew, Fall 2000 Spring

2 Books Exile as Home: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of Leyb Naydus (Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, [in press]) An Inch or Two of Time: Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015) A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2010) The Eighteenth-Century Language Text of Jüdischer Sprach-Meister: A West-Yiddish Dialogue Together with an English Translation and Introduction (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009) Books (edited) Co-editor, with Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge, and Mikhail Krutikov, Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics, and Art. Studies in Yiddish 10 (London: Legenda, 2012) Co-editor, with Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, and David Shneer, A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish ( ). Studies in Yiddish 9 (London: Legenda, 2011) Articles To Organize Beauty: The Sonnets of Mani Leyb Studies in American Jewish Literature 34.1 (2015): What Does It Mean to Write a Modern Jewish Sonnet: Some Challenges of Yiddish and Hebrew Journal of Jewish Identities 7.1 (2014): Shooting Crows with a Canon: Notes on the Poetics of Shaul Tshernikhovski s Early Works Prooftexts 30.2 (2010): Jewish Jokes, Yiddish Storytelling, and Sholem Aleichem: A Discursive Approach Jewish Social Studies 16.1 (2009): * An earlier version of this article appeared in: Shlomo Berger, ed. Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium 4: Yiddish Storytelling (Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel Institute, 2009) * Reprinted in: Leonard J. Greenspoon, ed., Jews and Humor. Studies in Jewish Civilization 22 (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011) Constellating Hebrew and Yiddish Avant-Gardes: The Example of Markish and Shlonsky Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 8.1 (2009):

3 Markish, Trakl, and the Temporaesthetic Modernism/modernity 15.4 (2008): With Footsteps Marking Roundabout Paths : Jewish Poetry on Crimea East European Jewish Affairs 38.2 (2008): The Poetics of Schadenfreude: N. B. Minkov on the Edge of Yiddish Diction The Jewish Quarterly Review 98.1 (2008): Enantiodrama: Enantiosemia in Arabic and Beyond Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68.3 (2005): Essays in Edited Volumes Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak s Vilne in: Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran, eds., Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016): Der Nister s Hebrew Nosegay in: Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge, and Mikhail Krutikov, eds. Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister. Studies in Yiddish 12 (London: Legenda, 2014): Time and Space as Revolutionary Principles in Interwar Soviet Yiddish Poetry in: Daniela Mantovan, ed., Yiddish Poets and the Soviet Union, (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012): In the Pot, Half-Melted: Sacco-Vanzetti Poems and Yiddish-American Identity in: Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah Pressman, eds., Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012): The Consolation of Sadness: The Curious Exile of Dovid Hofshteyn s Troyer in: Marion Aptroot, Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka, and Simon Neuberg, eds. Leket. Jiddistik heute Yiddish Studies Today yidishe shtudyes haynt (Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press, 2012): The Lighter Side of Babel: Perets Markish s Urban Poetics in: Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, David Shneer, and Jordan Finkin, eds. A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish ( ). Studies in Yiddish 9 (London: Legenda, 2011). Like Fires in Overgrown Forests : Moyshe Kulbak s Contemporary Berlin Poetics in: Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, eds. Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture. Studies in Yiddish 8 (London: Legenda, 2010),

4 Translations Leyb Rashkin, The People of Godlbozhits [novel] (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, [in press]) Kristoffer Nyrop, The Life of Words (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, [in press]) N. B. Minkov, In Our Days and The Last Wick [poems], Circumference: Poetry in Translation (circumferencemag.org; June 22, 2016) Naftoli Vaynig and Khayim Khayes, What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) in: Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran, eds., Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016): H. Aleksandrov, Research Your Shtetl! in: Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran, eds., Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016): Peretz Markish, from Rocks ; Jazz and Guslis ; from Grapes [poems] in: Joseph Sherman, ed., From Revolution to Repressions: Soviet Yiddish Writing (Nottingham, UK: Five Leaves Publications, 2012): Reviews and Entries Review of: Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, Twenty-First Century Yiddishism (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012) in: Studies in American Jewish Literature 34.2 (2015): Review of: Michael Weingrad, American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010); and Shachar Pinsker, Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011) in: Uzi Rebhun, ed. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 27 (2014): Entry: Synaesthesia in: Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, and Paul Rouzer, eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4 th ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012) (edited and updated from T.V.F. Brogan and A. G. Engstrom), Review of: Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris, eds. Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010) in: Modern Language Review (2011): Review of: Justin Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint, and Rachel Rubinstein, eds., Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays and Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse (Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, 2008) in: Eli Lederhendler, ed. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 25 (2011):

5 Pregnant with Meanings Review of: Max Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) in: The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), February 26, Review of: Joseph Sherman and Gennady Estraikh, eds. David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism (London: Legenda, 2007) in: AJS Review 32.2 (2008): Review of: Benjamin Harshav, The Polyphony of Jewish Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007) in: Modern Language Review (2008): Review of: Benjamin Harshav, ed. Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry. A Historical Anthology (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006) in: Modern Language Review (2008): Entries: Liessin, Abraham and Shomer Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2 nd edition (2006) (edited and updated with Sarah Felsen) Presentations and Invited Lectures The Diaspora Internationalism of Leyb Naydus The Richard J. Gunst Colloquium, Spiritual Homelands Wahlheimat Elective Exiles Conference, University of Virginia, October 7-9, 2015 Literary Yeshivish The Ginor Seminar in Jewish Literary Studies ( Jewspeak and Its Aftermath: Speech and Orality in Modern Jewish Discourse ) The Jewish Theological Seminary, October 19, 2014 Lecture Series on Yiddish Literature, The Program in Jewish Culture and Society, The University of Illinois: Jewish Humor s Yiddish Accent (October 17, 2013); The Shtetl: At Home in Exile (November 7, 2013); The Yiddish Sonnet (January 30, 2014); Yiddish: A Love Story (February 20, 2014) Jewish Humor and the Yiddish Joke The Fourth Annual Kasman Family Lecture, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, February 27, 2013 Time, Space, and Yocheved Bat-Miriam 44 th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 16-18, 2012 Y. L. Peretz s Hebrew Shtetl 43 rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 18-20, 2011 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Shtetl: Yiddish Jokes and Jewish Humor The Jacob Pat Memorial Lecture, Harvard College Library and the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, November 2,

6 What is the Opposite of Exile? A Question for Modern Jewish Literature The Gauss Seminar Symposium ( One Hundred Years of Primal Words: Five Explorations of Freud s On the Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words (1910) ), Princeton University, October 1, 2010 Roundtable Participant, The Future of Yiddish: Its Study, Literature, and Daily and Postvernacular Use The 125 th MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2009 The Role of the Joke in Jewish Discourse St Cross Colloquia Series, St Cross College, The University of Oxford, June 2, 2009 Like Fires in Overgrown Forests : Moyshe Kulbak s Berlin Poetics 2nd Interdisciplinary International Symposium on Russian Jewish Cultural Continuity in the Diaspora, Between Metropolis and Diaspora: Berlin in The University of Portsmouth, February 16-17, 2009 Poetry of the Incomprehensible: N. B. Minkov s At the Edge 40 th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 21-23, 2008 Yiddish Storytelling and the Jewish Joke: A Discursive Study The Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium, The Art of Yiddish Storytelling The University of Amsterdam, December 11, 2008 (delivered in absentia due to illness) Time and Space as Revolutionary Principles in Interwar Soviet Yiddish Poetry First Heidelberg International Conference in Modern Yiddish Studies, Yiddish Poets and the Soviet Union, December 1-3, 2008 David Fogel s Metaphorical Landscape Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies Seminar, University of Cambridge, May 14, 2008 Authentic Yiddishkeit for Christians and the Jüdischer Sprach-Meister The 123 rd MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2007 The Sacco-Vanzetti Poem as a Crucible of Yiddish-American Identity 39 th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 16-18, 2007 Shooting Crows with a Canon: Shaul Tshernikhovsky s Translations and Hebrew Canonicity Jewish Studies Seminars, Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit, University of Oxford, November 8, 2007 Is There a Modern Hebrew Poem Itself? Canons Past and Present Lecture Series Israel at 60 Centre for Jewish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, October 22,

7 The Dark Side of Babel: Perets Markish s Urban Poetics 7th Annual Mendel Friedman Conference in Yiddish, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, Yiddish in the 1920s August 28-31, 2007 N. B. Minkov s Polyphonic Aesthetic of Criticism 5 th Annual Yiddish Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley, Scholarship On and In Yiddish May 14-15, 2007 Reconfigured Constellations in Hebrew and Yiddish Poetry: The Modernisms of Avraham Shlonsky and Perets Markish The David Patterson Seminars, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, November 15, 2006 Y. L. Peretz s Conversational Nusach The 37 th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 18-20, 2005 Batrakhtn batrakhtn mir iber: The Yiddish Tautological Infinitive Reconsidered The Ohio State University, Looking Backward Looking Forward: A Conference Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Shlomo Noble November 5-7, 2005 Between the Borders of the Senses: Synaesthesia in Yiddish Poetry 2 nd Annual International Berkeley Yiddish Conference, On the Borders of Yiddishland May 24-25, 2004 The Hillock and the Camel s Eye: Words in Arabic (among other Languages) Bearing Opposing Meanings Department of Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium, Berkeley, California, November 2002 Works in Progress The Marble Home: The Creation of Jewish High Art (monograph) The Semitic Component of West Yiddish: A Semantic Field Lexicon Research Interests Modern Jewish literatures; comparative modernist poetics, focusing on Hebrew and Yiddish poetry; Hebrew and Yiddish linguistics, dialectology, and lexicography; Judaica bibliography Professional Affiliations Modern Language Association; Association for Jewish Studies; National Association of Professors of Hebrew; American Association of Professors of Yiddish; American Library Association; Association of Jewish Libraries 7