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D
r. D
aniel Feldman
Senior
Lecturer
Department of English Literature and Linguistics
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat Gan, 5290002
Israel
Daniel.Feldman@biu.ac.il
ןליא-רב ׳נוא ,תילגנא תורפסו תונשלב ,ריכב
הצרמ
ןמדלפ לאינד
Senior Lecturer of English Literature at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he focuses on Holocaust
literature and children’s literature. His book
Poesis in Extremis
, co-written with Efraim Sicher
(Bloomsbury
,
2024), addresses poetry written by Jews under Nazi persecution during the Holocaust
.
PUBLICATIONS
A.
Articles
“
Migrating Memory in Children
’
s Literature of the Holocaust
,”
Holocaust Studies
, 2026. Forthcoming.
“
Depicting the Holocaust for American Orthodox Jewish Children in
Olomeinu
.”
Studies in American
Jewish Literature
, vol. 43, no. 2, 2024, pp. 252-270.
“
Decolonization of Children’s Adventure Fiction in Novels by Janusz Korczak and Uri Orlev
.”
Libri
liberorum
vol. 60, 2024, pp. 45-53.
“
Reading Time in Youth Novels about
the Warsaw Ghetto
.”
Teksty
drugie, no 1., n024, pp. 290-305,
doi:
10.18318/td.2024.en.1.16
.
“Reading Poison: Science
and Story
in Nazi Children’s Propaganda.”
Children’s Literature in
Education
,
vol. 53, 2022, pp. 199-220,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-021-09454-9
.
“The Holocaust as Adventure in Uri Orlev's Children's Books.”
Bookbird: A Journal of International
Children’s Literature
, vol. 58
,
no. 4, 2020, p
p
. 3-11
,
https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2020.0064
.
“Address Unknown: German Children's Literature about Refugees.”
Children’s Literature Association
Quarterly
, vol. 45 no. 2, 2020, p. 124-144,
https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2020.0015
.
“Children’s Play in the Shadow of War.”
American Journal of Play
, vol. 11, no. 3, 2019, pp. 2
8
8-307.
Link
.
“Honoring the Child’s Right to Respect: Janusz Korczak as Holocaust Educator.”
The Lion and the
Unicorn
, vol. 40
,
no. 2, 2016, p
p
. 129-143
,
https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2016.0015
.
“Playing with the Past in Jane Yolen’s
The Devil’s Arithmetic
.”
Children’s Literature
, vol. 43
,
no. 1,
2015, pp. 84-107,
https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2015.0025
.
“Poetry in Question: The Interrogative Lyric of Yeats’s Major Poems.”
Partial Answers: Journal of
Literature and the History of Ideas
, vol. 12, no. 1, 2014, pp. 87-105.
https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.
2014.0008
.
“Reading Games in Auschwitz: Play in Holocaust Youth Literature.”
The Lion and the Unicorn
, vol.
38, no. 3, 2014, pp. 360-380.
doi:10.1353/uni.2014.0031
.
“Writing Nothing: Negation and Subjectivity in the Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan and Dan Pagis.”
Comparative Literature
, vol. 66, no. 4, 2014, pp. 438-58.
https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2823874
.
B
.
Book
s
With Efraim Sicher.
Poetry in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust
. Bloomsbury, 2024.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765100219
.
C
.
Book
Chapters
“
Literary Encounters
of German Youth
with Israel
.”
Ein neues Kapitel? Jüdische Kinder- und
Jugendliteratur nach 1945
. Edited by Hadassah Stichnothe, Winter, 2025. Forthcoming.
“Anglophone Adult
Holocaust
Literature
in the
Twenty-First
Century
.”
21st Century
Literature and the Holocaust. Multilingual Perspectives
.
E
dited by
Sławomir Jacek Żurek.
Peter Lang, 2025.
“Translating Oral Memory and Visual Media in Ida Fink’s ‘Traces.’”
Translated Memories
.
E
dited by
Bettina Hofmann and Ursula Reuter, Rowman & Littlefi eld, 2020, pp. 31-50.
D
.
Book Reviews
Review of Darr, Yael, The Nation and the Child: Nation Building in Hebrew Children’s Literature,
1930–1970.
International Research in Children’s Literature
, vol. 14, no. 1, 2021, p
p
. 112-114.
https://
doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0383
Review of Paik, ed., Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered.
Common Knowledge
,
vol.
19
,
2013
, pp.
573-74.
https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2282026
.
CURRICULUM VITAE
1.
Education
1997-2001 Columbia University, B.A. Summa cum laude
2003-2006 Yale University, M.A., M.Phil., Comparative Literature
2006-2011 Yale University, Ph.D., Comparative Literature
Dissertation: “Unrepeatable: Fiction in the Face of Disaster”
Advisor: Professor Katie Trumpener; Committee readers: Professor
Geoffrey Hartman, Professor Katie Clark, Professor Marci Shore
2. Professional Experience
2.1 Bar-Ilan University — 2011-present
2.2 Other professional
service
2001-2002 Educator,
Stiftung Lauder
, Würzburg and Berlin, Germany
2011-2012 Visiting speaker, Yad Vashem International School of Holocaust Studies
2014-
2015
Member, Committee on Prizes for Pedagogic Excellence, BIU
2014- Academic peer reviewer,
The Lion and the Unicorn
, USA
;
GIF
, Israel-Germany
2016- Undergraduate literature coordinator, Department of English, BIU
2024-25 Visiting Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea
3. Presentation of Papers in Scientifi c Meetings
Oct. 2001 “Topographies of Memory in Contemporary Poland,” Fairleigh Dickinson
University School of
International Affairs
, New Jersey
May 2004 “‘Ruins Even before They Crumble
’
: Musealization of Oswiecim,”
University of Konstanz, Germany
March 2007 “Around the Apocalypse: Appelfeld
’
s Anti-Catastrophic Poetics,”
American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico
Dec. 2007 “Stolen Childhoods: A Response,” Modern Languages Assoc., Chicago, IL
Jan. 2008 “Writing Against the Event,” Richard Stockton College, New Jersey
Feb. 2008 “Subject and Subjectivity in Atrocity Literature,”
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC
March 2008 “Reading Survivor Testimony in Truth Commission Archives,”
American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, CA
Dec. 2008 “Screening Communism, Adapting Independence: Wajda
’
s Andrzejewski
Films,” Modern Languages Association, San Francisco, CA
March 2009 “Atrocity Fiction and the View from Nowhere,” American Comparative Literature
Association, Boston, MA
March 2012 “Ida Fink
’
s ‘Key Game
’
and Literary Play of the Shoah,” American Comparative
Literature Association, Providence, RI
June 2012 “Nazi Ideology and Thinking for our Time,” Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Feb. 2013 “Comparative Perspectives on Israeli and Diasporic Jewish Memory,”
Van Leer Institute
Oct. 2013 “Of Butterflies and Boots: What do Children Understand of the Holocaust?” Bar Ilan
Nov. 2013 “The View from Nowhere: Multiperspectival Memory,” Tel Aviv University
Jan. 2014 “Play in Children
’
s Holocaust Literature,” Tilburg University and the
Huizinga Institute, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
March 2014 “Topography to Topos: Converting Sites of History into Museums,”
American Comparative Literature Association, New York, NY
June 2015 “
Light Games and Dark History: Play in Young Adult Fiction about the Holocaust
”
Children’s Literature Association, Richmond, VA
July 2016 “War Games: Children’s Play and Conflict Literature,” University of Salzburg, Austria
June 2017 “No Place — Like Home: Children’s Refugee Literature,” Children’s Literature
Association, Tampa, FL
July 2017 “
Story and Statistics: Factual Evidence
,”
American Comparative Literature Association,
Utrecht
,
Netherlands
March 2018 “Reading Poison: The Fiction of Science in Nazi Children’s Literature,” University of
Antwerp, Belgium
June 2018 “Refugee Children at Sea: Kinder auf der Flucht 1939 and 2015-17,” Children’s
Literature Association, San Antonio, TX
Nov. 2018 “Spiel in Jugendliteratur über den Holocaust,” Lisa Tetzner Lectures at
Humbold
t-
Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
*Invited keynote lecture
Feb. 2019 “
Past Perfect: Translating the Polish Postwar Fiction of Ida Fink
,”
American
Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Georgetown University
Aug. 2019 “
Voicing the Ineffable: Holocaust as Adventure in Uri Orlev
’
s Fiction
,”
Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children
’
s Literature
,
Stockholm
July 2020 “Trauma as Adventure: Survival and Reading” University of Antwerp Summer School,
Antwerp, Belgium *Invited keynote lecture
March 2021
“
Adventure & Trauma in Children's Literature
,
” The Child and the Book Conference,
Freie Universität Berlin *Invited keynote lecture
March 2023 “
Comparative Approaches to 21st-Century Anglophone Holocaust Literature
.”
*Organizer, with
Robert Eaglestone
and
Sarah Minslow
,
Institute of English Studies, School of
Advanced Studies, London, 27-29 March 2023
June 2023 “ A
New Orphanhood:
Young Adult
Fiction in an Age of Climate Refugees
,” Children’s
Literature Association, Seattle, WA
July 2023 “
Youth Novels
about
the Warsaw Ghetto
,” Lisa Tetzner Lectures at
Humbold
t-
Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
*
Invited keynote lecture
August 2023 “
Wilding the City: Domesticated Nature in Israeli Picturebooks
,”
Biennial Congress of
the International Research Society for Children
’
s Literature
, Santa Barbara
March 2024 “
Literarisch
e
Begegnungen der deutschen Jugend mit Israel / Literary Encounters of
German Youth with
Israel,” University of Bremen, Germany
December 2024 “
The Value of Education and the Education of Values
,” Sogang University, Korea
4. Academic and Professional Awards
2000 Dean Hawkes Prize, Achievement in the Humanities
2000 Phi Beta Kappa, early election
2001 Gerdy Prize, Outstanding Contributions to Campus Publications
2003 Ann Lowry Nelson and Lowry Nelson, Jr. Fellowship (2003-2006)
2004 Graduate School Language Fellowship, for study in Krakow, Poland
2005 European Studies Research Council, Research Grant for Poland
2006 John Enders Fellowship, Dissertation Grant
2006 Prize Teaching Fellowship, Award for Excellent Graduate Student Instructors
2007 Prize Teaching Fellowship, Award for Excellent Graduate Student Instructors
2011 Yad Vashem Institute for Holocaust Studies, Junior Fellowship, declined
2013 Bar-Ilan University Outstanding Lecturer
2016 Children
’
s Literature Association Honor Article (for
“
Reading Games in
Auschwitz
”
)
2016
Honor award, Children’s Literature Association’s Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Award
201
8
International
Honor Award
,
Children’s Literature Association
(for “Refugee Children at Sea”)
4. Membership in Professional Organizations
and Editorial Boards
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL)
Lion and the Unicorn
Editorial Board member, reader for
IRCL
,
Libri et liberi
,
Research on Diversity
in Children’s Literature, Seminar
5.
Research
Grants
2006 Ford Foundation, Grant for on archiving truth commission documents at the Yale Law School
and Yale University Library
,
$120,000
201
5
Bar-Ilan Faculty Grant
2015 Children’s Literature Association Faculty Research Grant
2015-18 Israel Science Foundation, “
Ida Fink: Holocaust Literature from the
Margins
,”
360,000 NIS /
~$100,000
2020-22 Israel Science Foundation, “Is there a Poetics of the Holocaust?,” 360,000 NIS / ~$100,000
6.
Graduate
Students Supervised
M.A.
2015 Cynthia Blank
(Rector’s Prize winner)
, Sara Goldberg, Francine Makbili, Alexandra Katz
2016 Tom Livny, Helena Stern
2017 Olga Chefranova,
Baraah Abdelhai
, Anne-Marie Novak
2018 Michal Gal Harari, Leah Hartman
(Rector’s Prize winner)
2019 Dan Cern
2020 Netanel Kleinman
2023
Zoraya Shubaeva
,
Huda Zehalka
2024
Noga Ella
Shahar
Ph.D.
Michael Ben-Haim, Maaian Arditi (2024-)
Postdoc. Edward Evans (2022-23)
6. Research Interests and Languages
6.1 Research Languages
: English, Hebrew, German
,
Polish, Yiddish
, Arabic
6.2 Research Interests
: Holocaust literature, children’s literature of atrocity, memory and fi ction,
literary theory
,
modern poetry
