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Dr. Daniel Feldman
Senior Lecturer
Department of English Literature and Linguistics
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel
Email:
d
aniel.Feldman@biu.ac.il
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8819-6196
https://cris.biu.ac.il/en/persons/daniel-feldman
Academic Positions
Senior Lecturer
(2011–present)
Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Visiting Professor
(2024–25)
Seoul National University, South Korea
Visiting Speaker
(2011–12)
Yad Vashem International School of Holocaust Studies
Education
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
(2011)
Yale University
Dissertation: "Unrepeatable: Fiction in the Face of Disaster"
Advisor: Professor Katie Trumpener
M.A., M.Phil. in Comparative Literature
(2006)
Yale University
B.A. Summa Cum Laude
(2001)
Columbia University
Research Interests
Holocaust literature, children's literature of atrocity, memory and fi ction, literary theory, modern poetry
Research Languages:
English, Hebrew, German, Polish, Yiddish, Arabic
Publications
Books
Feldman, Daniel, and Efraim Sicher.
Poetry in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust.
Bloomsbury, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765100219.
Journal Articles
Feldman, Daniel
, and Ada Bieber
.
"Migrating Memory in Children's Literature of the Holocaust."
Holocaust Studies
, 2026. Forthcoming.
Feldman
, Daniel,
Dong Yeol Park
, and
Hunseok Oh
. “
Orphans of the Earth
:
Climate Refugees in
Young Adult Science Fiction
.”
Climate Literacy in Education
, vol. 3, no. 1, 2025.
doi.org/10.24926/
cle.v3i1.6582
.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Depicting the Holocaust for American Orthodox Jewish Children in Olomeinu."
Studies in American Jewish Literature
, vol. 43, no. 2, 2024, pp. 252-270.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Decolonization of Children's Adventure Fiction in Novels by Janusz Korczak and
Uri Orlev."
Libri liberorum
, vol. 60, 2024, pp. 45-53.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Reading Time in Youth Novels about the Warsaw Ghetto."
Teksty drugie
, no. 1,
2024, pp. 290-305. doi: 10.18318/td.2024.en.1.16.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Reading Poison: Science and Story in Nazi Children's Propaganda."
Children's
Literature in Education
, vol. 53, 2022, pp. 199-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-021-09454-9.
Feldman, Daniel.
"The Holocaust as Adventure in Uri Orlev's Children's Books."
Bookbird: A Journal
of International Children's Literature
, vol. 58, no. 4, 2020, pp. 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.
2020.0064.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Address Unknown: German Children's Literature about Refugees."
Children's
Literature Association Quarterly
, vol. 45, no. 2, 2020, pp. 124-144. https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.
2020.0015.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Children's Play in the Shadow of War."
American Journal of Play
, vol. 11, no. 3,
2019, pp. 288-307.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Honoring the Child's Right to Respect: Janusz Korczak as Holocaust Educator."
The Lion and the Unicorn
, vol. 40, no. 2, 2016, pp. 129-143. https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2016.0015.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Playing with the Past in Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic."
Children's Literature
,
vol. 43, no. 1, 2015, pp. 84-107. https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2015.0025.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Poetry in Question: The Interrogative Lyric of Yeats's Major Poems."
Partial
Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
, vol. 12, no. 1, 2014, pp. 87-105. https://
doi.org/10.1353/pan.2014.0008.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Reading Games in Auschwitz: Play in Holocaust Youth Literature."
The Lion and
the Unicorn
, vol. 38, no. 3, 2014, pp. 360-380. doi:10.1353/uni.2014.0031.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Writing Nothing: Negation and Subjectivity in the Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan
and Dan Pagis."
Comparative Literature
, vol. 66, no. 4, 2014, pp. 438-458. https://doi.org/
10.1215/00104124-2823874.
Book Chapters
Feldman, Daniel.
"Literary Encounters of German Youth with Israel." In
Ein neues Kapitel? Jüdische
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur nach 1945
, edited by Hadassah Stichnothe. Winter, 2025. Forthcoming.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Anglophone Adult Holocaust Literature in the Twenty-First Century." In
21st
Century Literature and the Holocaust: Multilingual Perspectives
, edited by Sławomir Jacek Żurek.
Peter Lang, 2025.
Feldman, Daniel.
"Translating Oral Memory and Visual Media in Ida Fink's 'Traces.'" In
Translated
Memories
, edited by Bettina Hofmann and Ursula Reuter. Rowman & Littlefi eld, 2020, pp. 31-50.
Book Reviews
Feldman, Daniel.
Review of
The Nation and the Child: Nation Building in Hebrew Children's
Literature, 1930–1970
, by Yael Darr.
International Research in Children's Literature
, vol. 14, no. 1,
2021, pp. 112-114. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0383.
Feldman, Daniel.
Review of
Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered
, edited by
Paik.
Common Knowledge
, vol. 19, 2013, pp. 573-574. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2282026.
Awards and Honors
2018
International Honor Award, Children's Literature Association (for "Refugee Children at Sea")
2016
Children's Literature Association Honor Article (for "Reading Games in Auschwitz")
2016
Honor Award, Children's Literature Association's Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Award
2013
Bar-Ilan University Outstanding Lecturer
2007
Prize Teaching Fellowship, Award for Excellent Graduate Student Instructors, Yale University
2006
Prize Teaching Fellowship, Award for Excellent Graduate Student Instructors, Yale University
2006
John Enders Fellowship, Dissertation Grant, Yale University
2005
European Studies Research Council, Research Grant for Poland
2004
Graduate School Language Fellowship, for study in Krakow, Poland, Yale University
2003
Ann Lowry Nelson and Lowry Nelson, Jr. Fellowship (2003-2006), Yale University
2001
Gerdy Prize, Outstanding Contributions to Campus Publications, Columbia University
2000
Phi Beta Kappa, early election, Columbia University
2000
Dean Hawkes Prize, Achievement in the Humanities, Columbia University
Research Grants
2025
Seoul National University, “Narrative Education,”
2020–22
Israel Science Foundation, "Is there a Poetics of the Holocaust?" 360,000 NIS (~$100,000)
2015–18
Israel Science Foundation, "Ida Fink: Holocaust Literature from the Margins," 360,000 NIS
(~$100,000)
2015
Children's Literature Association Faculty Research Grant
2015
Bar-Ilan Faculty Grant
2006
Ford Foundation, Grant for archiving truth commission documents at Yale Law School and Yale
University Library, $120,000
Conference Presentations
Keynote Lectures
2023
"Youth Novels about the Warsaw Ghetto," Lisa Tetzner Lectures, Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin, Germany
2021
"Adventure & Trauma in Children's Literature," The Child and the Book Conference, Freie
Universität Berlin
2020
"Trauma as Adventure: Survival and Reading," University of Antwerp Summer School, Belgium
2018
"Spiel in Jugendliteratur über den Holocaust," Lisa Tetzner Lectures, Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin, Germany
Selected Conference Papers
2025
"
Storied Learning:
Narrative Pedagogy as Cultural Transmission in Jewish Education
,” Seoul
National University, Korea
2024
"The Value of Education and the Education of Values," Sogang University, Korea
2024
"Literarische Begegnungen der deutschen Jugend mit Israel," University of Bremen, Germany
2023
"A New Orphanhood: Young Adult Fiction in an Age of Climate Refugees," Children's Literature
Association, Seattle, WA
2023
"Wilding the City: Domesticated Nature in Israeli Picturebooks," International Research Society
for Children's Literature Congress, Santa Barbara
2023
"Comparative Approaches to 21st-Century Anglophone Holocaust Literature" (Organizer),
Institute of English Studies, London
2019
"Voicing the Ineffable: Holocaust as Adventure in Uri Orlev's Fiction," International Research
Society for Children's Literature Congress, Stockholm
2019
"Past Perfect: Translating the Polish Postwar Fiction of Ida Fink," American Comparative
Literature Association, Georgetown University
2018
"Refugee Children at Sea: Kinder auf der Flucht 1939 and 2015-17," Children's Literature
Association, San Antonio, TX
2018
"Reading Poison: The Fiction of Science in Nazi Children's Literature," University of Antwerp,
Belgium
2017
"No Place — Like Home: Children's Refugee Literature," Children's Literature Association,
Tampa, FL
2017
"Story and Statistics: Factual Evidence," American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht,
Netherlands
2016
"War Games: Children's Play and Conflict Literature," University of Salzburg, Austria
2015
"Light Games and Dark History: Play in Young Adult Fiction about the Holocaust," Children's
Literature Association, Richmond, VA
Service
Editorial Service
2014–present
Academic peer reviewer,
German-Israel Foundation
Editorial Board Member
The Lion and the Unicorn
Manuscript Reviewer
International Research in Children
’
s Literature
,
Libri et liberi
,
Research on
Diversity in Children's Literature
,
Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
,
Modern Jewish Studies
University Service
2016–present
Undergraduate Literature Coordinator, Department of English, Bar-Ilan University
2014–15
Member, Committee on Prizes for Pedagogic Excellence, Bar-Ilan University
Other Professional Service
2001–02
Educator, Stiftung Lauder, Würzburg and Berlin, Germany
Graduate Student Supervision
Ph.D. Students
2024
–
present
Michael Ben-Haim, Maaian Arditi
, Maria Belkin
Postdoctoral Researchers
2023
–
24
Edward Evans
M.A. Students (Completed)
2024
Noga Ella Shahar
2023
Zoraya Shubaeva, Huda Zehalka
2020
Netanel Kleinman
2019
Dan Cern
2018
Michal Gal Harari, Leah Hartman (Rector's Prize winner)
2017
Olga Chefranova, Baraah Abdelhai, Anne-Marie Novak
2016
Tom Livny, Helena Stern
2015
Cynthia Blank (Rector's Prize winner), Sara Goldberg, Francine Makbili, Alexandra Katz
Professional Memberships
International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL)
