Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and
The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies,
University of Michigan
MLB 3040
812 E. Washington St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
Office 734-647-2136, Mobile 734-709-6979 krutikov@umich.edu EMPLOYMENT
2010 - Associate Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan,
2004 - 2010 Assistant Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan,
2002-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
1999-2002 Lecturer in Yiddish Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (half-time)
1996-2001 Lecturer in Yiddish Literature, Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (half-time)
1995-1996 Academic Curator, Project Judaica, Joint academic program between the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Russian State University for Humanities
OTHER ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
2000- Fellow, European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University
2001- Senior Research Associate, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
EDUCATION
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Ph.D. in Jewish Literature, 1998
Gorky Institute of Literature, Moscow, Certificate (MFA equivalent), Yiddish language and literature, 1991
Moscow State University, Diploma (B.Sc. equivalent), Mathematics, 1979
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener, Stanford University Press, 2011
Winner of the Modern Language Association Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for 2008-2011.
Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914. Stanford University Press, 2001.
Co-edited Books
Forthcoming
Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister. Co-edited with Gennady Estraikh and Kerstin Hoge, Oxford: Legenda, 2014
Joseph Opatoshu: A Yiddish Writer between Europe and America. Co-edited with Sabine Koller and Gennady Estraikh, Oxford: Legenda, 2013
Published
Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art. Co-edited with Gennady Estraikh, Jordan Finkin and Kerstin Hoge. Oxford: Legenda, 2012
Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture. Co-edited with Gennady Estraikh, Oxford: Legenda, 2010
Yiddish and the Left. Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish. Co-edited with Gennady Estraikh, Oxford: Legenda, 2001
The Shtetl: Image and Reality. Papers of the Second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish. Co-edited with Gennady Estraikh, Oxford, Legenda, 2000
Yiddish in the Contemporary World. Papers of the First Mendel Friedman Conference on Yiddish. Co-edited with Gennady Estraikh, Oxford: Legenda, 1999.
Editorial Participation
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. 2 Vols. Yale University Press, 2008 (editor, Yiddish literature after 1800), Editor-in-Chief Gershon Hundert.
Articles and Chapters in Refereed Publications (since 2005)
Forthcoming
“Yiddish Literature: From the Haskalah to Modernism”, Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. viii, ed. Antony Michels and Mitchell Hart, Cambridge University Press
“The Family Mashber: Text and Context,” in Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister. Co-edited with Gennady Estraikh and Kerstin Hoge, Oxford: Legenda, 2014
“Еврейская память и «парасоветский» хронотоп: Александр Гольдштейн, Олег Юрьев, Александр Иличевский”, НЛО, 1, 2014 (“Jewish Memory and the ‘Para-Soviet’ Chronotope: Aleksandr Goldshteyn, Oleg Yuryev, Aleksandr Ilichevskii,” NLO, 1, 2014)
“Kabbalah, Dada, Communism: Meir Wiener's Lehrjahre in Switzerland during World War I,” in East European Jews in Switzerland, ed. Tamar Lewinsky and Sandrine Mayoraz, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013
with Gennady Estraikh, “Yiddish Studies,” The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, vol. 74 [survey year 2012]
“In Search of a Soviet Yiddishland: The Poetics of Absence in Shmuel Gordon’s
