Susanne Klingenstein

Susanne Klingenstein is an Associate at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. She received her PhD at the University of Heidelberg in American Studies and has written two books about the careers of American Jewish literary scholars. Investigating the process of how writers move from regional to national significance, she wrote cultural biographical of the writers Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (2014) and Martin Walser (2016). She taught literature, history and writing at MIT and Harvard Medical School and has translated works by Abramovitsh and Chaim Grade into German. The first volume of her cultural History of Yiddish literature, covering the years 1105-1597 was published in Berlin in 2022.