Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies
About
Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies
The Tisch professorship was made possible by a gift from Preston R. Tisch of New York City. The current incumbent of the professorship is Mikhail Krutikov, one of the world’s leading scholars of Jewish literature. His particular focus is on Yiddish literature and the Jewish literatures of the Slavic world.
Institute Fellow, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
“Urban Space in Jewish Literature(s)”
Mikhail Krutikov is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905–1914, From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener, and Der Nister’s Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People. He co-edited nine collections on Yiddish literature and culture, most recently Three Cities of Yiddish: St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, co-edited with Gennady Estraikh. He has been a cultural columnist for the Yiddish Forward since 1999. A collection of his Yiddish essays came out in Israel in 2018 under the title Tsvishn shures: notitsn vegn yidisher kultur (Between Lines: Notes on Jewish Culture).
