Suzanne Faigan

Honorary Research Associate

Research areas

• Soviet Jewish history;
• Women in politics;
• Yiddish activism.

Current projects

• A biography of Ester Frumkin.

Conference activity

• 12-13 February 2006:
  ‘Esther Frumkin: “A Frenzied Medusa Whose Fury Was On the Head of the Rabbis"'
  Women in Judaism’, Australian Association of Jewish Studies conference, University of Melbourne.
• 6-10 February 2006:
  ‘Using Lives’ Workshop on Biography, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.
• 27 June 2005:
  ‘Esther Frumkin and the Yidishe Folks-shul’, Yiddish and Education conference, Mandelbaum House, University of Sydney.

Other professional contributions

• April 2002 – February 2005: Chief Executive Officer of Mandelbaum House, University of Sydney;
• 2001: NAATI Professional translation accreditation (Russian and French to English);
• 1995: Trinity College, London, TESOL (English language teaching) accreditation.