Ellen Kellman

Title

Assistant Professor of Yiddish

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Degrees

Columbia University, D.Phil.

Columbia University, M.A.

University of Michigan, M.Phil.

Goddard College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	kellman@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2129
Office:	Lown, 300b

Awards and Honors

Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award (2009)

Posen Summer Seminar Award (2009)

Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor, YIVO Institute (2008)

Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Research Grant (2008)

Courses Taught

NEJS	75a	Yiddish Literature and the Modern Jewish Revolution: From Dybbuk to Yentl
NEJS	75b	Classic Yiddish Fiction
NEJS	134b	Secular-isms: Yiddish Culture in the Modern World
NEJS	175a	Jewish Women in Eastern Europe: Tradition and Transformation
NEJS	262a	Graduate Seminar in Modern Jewish Literature: Culture, Place, and Gender
USEM	12a	The "I" in the Storm: Writers Respond to Totalitarianism
YDSH	10a	Beginning Yiddish
YDSH	20b	Continuing Yiddish
YDSH	30a	Intermediate Yiddish
YDSH	40b	Advanced Intermediate Yiddish

Scholarship

Kellman,Ellen. "Les romans-feuilletons dans la presse yiddish américaine (1870-1900) (Serialized Fiction in the American Yiddish Press [1870-1900]." Au bonheur du feuilleton: Naissance et mutations d'un genre (Etats-Unis, France, Grande-Bretagne. XVIII°-XX° siècle). Ed. Marie-Francoise Cachin and Claire Parfait. Paris: Créaphis Press, 2007 (forthcoming)

Kellman, Ellen. "Der Groyser Kundes and its Polemic with Abraham Cahan over shund (Yiddish)." Tsukunft (2008).

Kellman, Ellen. "Abraham Cahan and the Newspaper Novel in Forverts (Yiddish)." Forverts June 1, 2007: 12.

Kellman, Ellen. "Creating Space for Women in Interwar Jewish Vilna: the Role of the Froyen-fareyn." Pinkas: Annual of the Culture and History of East European Jewry II. (2007).

Kellman, Ellen. "Entertaining New Americans: Popular Fiction in the Forverts (1910-1930)." Jews and American Culture. vol. 2 Ed. Paul Buhle. Westport and London: Praeger, 2007

Kellman, Ellen. "Feminizm i literatura." Midrasz (2007).

Kellman, Ellen. "Uneasy Patronage: Dovid Bergelson's Years at the Forverts (1922-26)." David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism. Ed. Joseph Sherman and Gennady Estraikh. London: Legenda, 2007

Kellman, Ellen. "Feminism and Fiction: Khane Blankshteyn's Role in Interwar Vilna." Polin 18. (2005): 221-239.

Kellman, Ellen. "The Early Period of I. J. Singer's Career at the Forverts." Bilgoraj, czyli raj... Rodzina Singerow i swiat , ktorego juz nie ma. Ed. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska and Boguslaw Wroblewski. Lublin: Marie Curie-Sklodowska University Press, 2005

Kellman, Ellen. "Power, Powerlessness and the Jewish Nation in Sholem Asch's Af kidesh haShem." Sholem Asch Reconsidered. Ed. Nanette Stahl. New Haven: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Yale University, 2004

Kellman,Ellen. "The Yiddish Book Sounds the Alarm!: Toward the History of Yiddish Reading in Interwar Poland." Polin 16. (2003).