Susanne Klingenstein

Susanne Klingenstein, born in Baden-Baden in 1959, taught literature at Harvard University and MIT from 1988 to 2001. She published studies on identity formation among Jewish literary scholars and translated important Yiddish stories. Her books include a study of Martin Walser and “Mendele the Bookseller: The Life and Work of Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh,” a study of the history of Yiddish literature between Berdichev and Odessa (1835–1917).