Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Yiddish

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Awards and Honors

Center for German and European Studies Research Grant (2012)

Scholars Working Group on the Jews of New York (Sponsors: The Center for Jewish History and New York University) (2012)

Scholars Working Group on the Jews of New York (Sponsors: The Center for Jewish History and New York University) (2010)

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	134b	Yiddish Culture in the Modern World
NEJS	158b	Yiddish Literature and the Modern Jewish Revolution: From Dybbuk to Yentl
NEJS	159b	The Yiddish Classics: Fiction and Drama
NEJS	171a	Modern Jewish Literatures: Text, Image and Context
NEJS	175a	Jews and Gender in Eastern Europe: Tradition and Transformation
YDSH	10a	Beginning Yiddish
YDSH	20b	Continuing Yiddish
YDSH	30a	Intermediate Yiddish
YDSH	40b	Advanced Intermediate Yiddish

Scholarship

Kellman, Ellen. "Faint Praise: the Early Critical Reception of Joseph Opatoshu’s Historical Novel In poylishe velder (In Polish Woods)." Joseph Opatoshu: a Yiddish Writer, Thinker and Activist. vol. Studies in Yiddish series, vol. 10 Ed. Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov and Sabine Koller. London: Legenda, 2013 (forthcoming)

Kellman, Ellen. "Aiding the Female Immigrant Reader or Entertaining Her?: The Jewish Daily Forward and its ‘Gallery of Missing Husbands’ (ca. 1908)”." New York and the American Jewish Experience. vol. 2013 Ed. Fruma Mohrer. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2013

Kellman, Ellen. "“The Pregnant Bride from Suffolk Street: Intraethnic Class Conflict in a Yiddish Serial Novel (1931)”." The Serial Novel in U.S. Minority Press, 1820-1920. Ed. Patricia Okker. New York: Routledge Press, 2012

Kellman, Ellen, ed. "The Brief Afterlife of the Kultur-Lige in Interwar Poland" in Jews and Slavs. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, vol. 22 2010.

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." Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe: Day-to-day History. Ed. Jurgita Verbickiene and Larisa Lempertiene. Cambridge: Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews, 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. "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

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).