Maurice Friedberg
Slavicist, educator, author
Born Dec. 3, 1929, Rzeszow, Poland; came to U.S., 1948; son of Isaac and Ida (Jam); married Barbara (Bisguier); children: Rachel, Edna.
Education: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Brooklyn College (NY), 1951; Master of Arts (M.A.), 1953, Ph.D., 1958, Columbia University, New York City.
Career: lecturer, Brooklyn College, 1951-52; associate prof., Hunter College, New York City, 1955-65; visiting assistant prof., Columbia University, 1961-62; visiting prof., Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel), 1965-66; prof., director, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, 1966-75; prof., department head, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, 1975 -.
Author: Russian Classics in Soviet Jackets, 1962; A Decade of Euphoria, 1977; Russian Culture in the 1980's, 1985; How Things Were Done in Odessa, 1991; editor, Polin (United Kingdom), Slavic Review, Studies in Comparative Communism.
Honors: fellowships, Fulbright-Hays Foundation, 1965-66, Guggenheim Foundation, 1971, 1981-82, National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), 1990-91; senior scholar, University of Illinois, 1987.
Affiliation: Jewish
Languages: Polish, English, Russian, Yiddish, French, German, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Belorussian
Office: University of Illinois, Department of Slavic Languages, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Suite 3092, Urbana, IL 61801.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996