Suzanne Klingenstein
Susanne Klingenstein is a literary historian. She served as assistant and associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993-2001) and as Lecturer in the Humanities at Harvard Medical School (2001-2015). She is the author of Jews in the American Academy, 1900–1940 (1991) and Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 (1998). Her biographies of the Yiddish writer Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (2014) and the German writer Martin Walser (2016) appeared in Germany, as did her translations of fiction by Abramovitsh and Chaim Grade. She is working on a multi-volume cultural history of Yiddish literature.
