Mikhail KrutikovView profile
Professor
- Yiddish literature and culture
- Jews in Eastern and Central Europe
- contemporary Jewish literature
- +3 more
Mikhail Krutikov is the Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies and Chair/Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He holds joint appointments in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. His research focuses on Yiddish literature, Jewish intellectual history, and Soviet cultural politics. Krutikov has authored seminal works like From Kabbalah to Class Struggle (2011) and Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity (2001). Education: Mathematics (Moscow State University, 1979), Yiddish Studies (A.M. Gorky Institute, 1991), Jewish Literature (Jewish Theological Seminary, 1998). He has held fellowships at the Hebrew University, Oxford, and the Frankel Institute. His weekly Yiddish column in Forward critiques contemporary Jewish culture. Research emphasizes Soviet Yiddish literature, transnational Jewish diasporas, and urban cultural spaces. Notable projects include studies on Der Nister and Weimar Berlin's Jewish intellectual life. Krutikov edits the Jews in Eastern Europe series and serves on editorial boards for Prooftexts and East European Jewish Affairs . Key Awards: MLA Fenia Leviant Prize (2012), Head Fellow (2014-15), multiple grants from Yad Hanadiv and the Memorial Foundation. Publications: Over 50 peer-reviewed articles, 8 authored/edited books, and 1,000+ cultural essays in Yiddish. Teaching includes courses on Jewish modernism, shtetl narratives, and Russian-Jewish literature. He advises graduate students in Slavic, Judaic, and Yiddish studies. Krutikov's lab explores digital archives of Soviet Yiddish texts and collaborates with Vilnius University on Belarusian-Jewish cultural history.











