Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
History
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

East European Jewish history.

Awards and Honors

Alan M. Stroock Fellow For Advanced Research in Jewish Studies, Harvard University (2007)

Bernstein Faculty Fellowship, Brandeis University (2002 - 2003)

Salo W. Baron Prize for the best first book in Jewish Studies for the year 2002 by the American Academy for Jewish Research. (2002 - 2003)

Michael L. Walzer "5 Award for Teaching (internal) (2001 - 2002)

Harry Starr Fellowship, Harvard University (1996 - 1997)

Laurie Foundation Grant, "Sex and the Shtetl: Jewish Sexuality, Gender, and Family in Imperial Russia" (1996 - 1997)

NEH Collaborative Grant: "Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia" (1996)

Courses Taught

FYS	28b	The Jewish Family: Past and Present
GSAS	302d	Interdisciplinary Dissertation Seminar
NEJS	140b	Early Modern Jewish History
NEJS	141a	Russian Jews in the Twentieth Century
NEJS	166a	Carnal Israel: Exploring Jewish Sexuality from Talmudic Times to the Present
NEJS	166b	Who is a Jew? Identity, Conversion, and Citizenship
NEJS	231a	Graduate Proseminar in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
NEJS	236b	Graduate Seminar in Russian-Jewish History to 1917
WMGS	5a	Women and Gender in Culture and Society

Scholarship

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo. Nisuim ve-girushim ha-yehudit ba-Imperyah ha-Rusit. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2013. (forthcoming)

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo. ""Russia"." Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Ed. David Biale. New York: Oxford Univeresity Press, 2012 (forthcoming)

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo. "The Mariinsko-Sergievskii Shelter for Baptized Jewish Children in St. Petersburg." Jews in the East European Borderlands: Daily Life, Violence, and Memory. Ed. Eugene Avrutin and Harriet Murav. Academic Studies Press, 2011 (forthcoming)

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo with Sarunas Liekis and Antony Polonsky, ed. Jews in the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania Since 1772. 1 ed. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013.

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo. "Lilith's Midwives: Jewish Newborn Child Murder in Nineteenth-Century Vil'na." Jewish Social Studies 16. 2 (2010): 1-27.

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo. "The Politics of Love in Lev Levanda's Turbulent Times." Gender and Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Paula Hyman. Ed. Marion Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 187-202.

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo. "'She Done Him In:' Marital Breakdown in a Jewish Family." The Human Tradition in Imperial Russia. 2009 ed. Ed. Christine Worobec. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2009

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo, Gershon Hundert. "Entries on Family, Gomel, Oskar Gruzenberg, Kharkov, Marriage, Sexuality, Uman, Yikhus." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. 2008.

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo Polonsky, Antony & Hyman, Paula (Eds.). Jewish Women in Eastern Europe. Littman Press, 2005.

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo. "When Chava Left Home: Gender, Conversion and Family in Tsarist Russia." Jewish Women in Eastern Europe. Littman Press, 2005

Freeze,ChaeRan Yoo. Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia. University Press of New England (Brandeis University), 2002.