Ellen G Friedman Author & Editor

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Ellen G. Friedman was born in Kyrgyzstan, a republic of the Soviet Union. Professor of English and founding director the program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the College of New Jersey, she has published books on literature and culture, as well as many articles in a range of scholarly and popular journals. She has also led a National Endowment for the Humanities grant on women and the Holocaust for the New Jersey Council on the Humanities.