Professor Frieden teaches Judaic Literature, specializing in Yiddish and Hebrew texts. He has held the B.G. Rudolph Chair in Judaic Studies at Syracuse University since 1993. He also edits a series, Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art, at Syracuse University Press. In addition to working in the fields of Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature, he is active as a Klezmer clarinetist.
Hebrew Literature
The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture, The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture Written by Allan Nadler (1999)
Book review of Allan Nadler's work The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic...
Yiddish Literature
Yekhezkel Kotik. Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik. Written by Yekhezkel Kotik, Edited by David Assaf, Translated by Margaret Birstein, Yekhezkel Kotik. Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik (2005)
Review of Yekhezkel Kotik's work Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel. Edited...
Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914, Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914. Written by Mikhail Krutikov (2003)
Review of Mikhail Krutikov's Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914.
Parody and Hagiography: I. L. Peretz's As-If Hasidic Stories, Chuliyot (2002)
Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler (with Dan Miron), Schocken Books (1996)
Born in Belorussia in 1836, S. Y. Abramovitsh was the founding father of modern Yiddish...
Freud and Interpretation
Freud, Women, and Jews: Viennese Jokes and Judaic Dream Interpretation, The Solomon Goldman Lectures Volume VIII (2003)
Sigmund Freud's Passover Dream Responds to Theodor Herzl's Zionist Dream, Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture 1096-1996. edited by Sander Gilman and Jack Zipes (1997)
Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. Freud's Mosses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable., Freud's Mosses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable. Written by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. (1993)
Review of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's work Freud's Mosses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable.
Talmudic Dream Interpretation, Freudian Ambivalence, Deconstruction, The Dream and the Text: Essays on Literature and Language (1990)
"All Dreams Follow the Mouth": The Dream-Interpreter as Prophet, Criticism and Lacan: Essays and Dialogue on Language, Structure and the Unconscious (1990)
Freud's "talking cure" and methods of dream interpretation have occasionally
been understood in the context of...
Comparative Literature
The Displacement of Jewish Identity in Stefan Zweig's "Buchmendel", Symposium (1999)
IN THE STORY "BUCHMENDEL" ( 1929), Stefan Zweig represents Jewish identity
in Vienna as it is...
Hebrew Poetry Written with a Gothic Script, Else Lasker-Schueler: A Study in German-Jewish Literature by Leon Yudkin (1992)
Review of Else Lasker-Schueler's work A Study in German-Jewish Literature.
A Daughter of the Mother Tongue, A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New, and Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz (1991)
Review of Irena Klepfisz works, A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and...
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The Life and Work of S.M. Dubnov: Disapora Nationalism and Jewish History, The Life and Work of S.M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History. Written by Sophie Dubnov-Erlich (1992)
Review of Sophie Dubnov-Erligh's work The Life and Work of S.M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and...
Dream Interpreters in Exile: Joseph, Daniel, and Sigmund (Solomon), Bucknell Review (1990)
The biblical Joseph and Daniel have much in common with Sigmund
Freud, for all three experienced...