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David Suchoff received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and is Professor of English at Colby College. He is author of Critical Theory and the Novel: Mass Society and Cultural Criticism in Dickens, Melville and Kafka (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), editor, with Mary Rhiel, of The Seductions of Biography (Routledge, 1995), and has published on theory, as well as American, British, Israeli, and Yiddish literature. He is a translator of and author of the Introductions to Alain Finkielkraut's The Imaginary Jew (1994) and The Wisdom of Love (1995); his translation of and Introduction, with Willi Goetschel, to Hermann Levin Goldschmidt’s The Legacy of German Jewry is forthcoming from the Fordham University Press in 2007. He is currently working on a book on Jewish languages and the novels of Franz Kafka, and a translation of Yiddish Reportage from the Warsaw and Lodz ghettos.

EN323 Sample Essay 1

Modern Jewish Writing: Essay 1

EN323 Sample Essay 2

On Franz Kafka, "A Country Doctor"

David Suchoff on the Legacy of German Jewry

Critical Theory and the Novel provides a useful introduction to Benjamin and Adorno and their uses in practical criticism. It is also a study of the historical origins of literary theory and cultural criticism and a contribution to the expanding field of Cultural Studies. University of Wisconsin Press.

"Smuggling in the Warsaw Ghetto" by Peretz Opoczynski, Introduction and Translation by David Suchoff, Pakn Treger: Magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center, Fall 2006/5767, no. 52, pp. 32-37.

"Kafka's Languages: Hebrew and Yiddish in The Trial and Amerika, in Doris Sommer, ed., Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations (New York: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2003), pp. 251-274.

David Suchoff and Willi Goetschel, “Das Vermächtnis des deutschen Judentums: Hermann Levin Goldschmidts unzeitgemäße Betrachtung,” Neue Rundschau 116, Jahrgang 2005:4, December 2005, pp. 168-173.

David Suchoff, "Kafka's Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition," Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 15:2, 2007, pp. 65-132.

The Legacy of German Jewry, by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, Translated by David Suchoff, Introduction by Willi Goetschel, and David Suchoff, $50.00, ISBN: 9780823228263, Fordham University Press, 224 pages, 2007.

David Suchoff, "Franz Kafka, Hebrew Writer: The Vaudeville of Linguistic Origins," Nexus: The Duke German and Jewish Studies Yearbook, forthcoming 2010.