Friedberg, Maurice
FRIEDBERG, Maurice
FRIEDBERG, Maurice. American (born Poland), b. 1929. Genres: International relations/Current affairs, Literary criticism and history, Translations. Career: City University of New York, Hunter College, associate professor of Russian, chairman of Russian Division, 1955-65; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Fulbright visiting professor of Russian literature, 1965-66; Indiana University, Bloomington, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, 1966-75, director of the Russian and East European Institute 1967-71; University of Illinois, Urbana, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, and dept. head, 1975-2000, Center for Advanced Study, professor emeritus of Slavic literature, 2000-. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, director d'etudes associe, 1984-85. Publications: Russian Classics in Soviet Jackets, 1962; The Jew in Post Stalin Soviet Literature, 1970; A Decade of Euphoria: Western Literature in Post-Stalin Russia, 1977; Russian Culture in the 1980's, 1985; How Things Were Done in Odessa: Cultural and Intellectual Pursuits in a Soviet City, 1991; Literary Translation in Russia, 1997. EDITOR: A Bilingual Edition of Russian Short Stories, 1965, vol. II, and trans. with R.A. Maguire, 1965, 1966; (and co-author) Encyclopedia Judaica, 16 vols., 1971-72; The Young Lenin, by Leon Trotsky, 1972; Soviet Society Under Gorbachev, 1987; The Red Pencil: Artists, Scholars and Censors in the U.S.S.R., 1989. Address: 2406 N Nottingham Ct, Champaign, IL 61821, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]