ChaeRan Freeze

Frances and Max Elkon Chair in Modern Jewish History

Departments/Programs

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

Degrees

Brandeis University, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, M.A.
University of California, Irvine, B.A.

Expertise

Jewish History, Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies

Profile

Russian-Jewish historian with research interests in gender, family, sexuality, radical movements, and everyday life.

Courses Taught

GSAS	301d	Interdisciplinary Prospectus Seminar
NEJS	140b	Gender, Ghettos, and the Geographies of Early Modern Jews
NEJS	141a	Russian Jews in the Twentieth Century
NEJS	149b	Jewish Spaces, Global Cities
NEJS	166a	Carnal Israel: Exploring Jewish Sexuality from Talmudic Times to the Present
WGS	5a	Women, Genders, and Sexualities

Awards and Honors

Senior Faculty Research Leave Grant (2014)

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Mentoring Award, Brandeis University (2013)

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 - 2007)

Scholarship

Freeze, ChaeRan, Freeze, Gregory. "“Transnational Diaspora: Interaction of Russian and European Elites with the Poliakovs." Vestnik Sankt Peterburgskago Universiteta. Istoriia 65. 1 (2020): 108-120.

Freeze, ChaeRan. A Woman of Distinction: The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova in Imperial Russia. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2019.

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo. "Fallen from the Faith: Jewish Converts in Imperial Russia." Church and Society in Modern Russia: Essays in Honor of Gregory Lee Freeze. 1 ed. vol. 1 Ed. Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter and Manfred Hildemeier. Weisbaden: Harrosowitz Verlag, 2016. 157-172.

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo, ed. The Individual in Jewish History. 1st ed. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2015.

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo. "The Evolution of Roza Georgievna Vinaver: The Making of a Jewish Liberal Politician's Wife." The Individual in Jewish History. 1 ed. vol. 1 Ed. ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Sylvia Fuks Fried, Eugene Sheppard. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2015. 313-334.

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo and Harris, Jay. Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia: Select Documents, 1772-1914. 1st ed. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2013.

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. Nisuim ve-girushim ha-yehudit ba-Imperyah ha-Rusit. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2013.

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

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

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.