Sidney Feshbach, Professor, Author and Resident of Amherst, died at 90 on May 11, 2022

Sidney Feshbach, a leading James Joyce scholar, prolific author, and professor of English, died peacefully at a hospital in Springfield surrounded by his family, on May 11, 2022, following a fall.

Sidney held a lifetime devotion to literature and teaching, retiring after many decades in 1994 as Professor of English from the City College of New York. He previously was an Associate Professor at the University of Hartford and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Sidney was a preeminent James Joyce scholar, whose credits include delivery of the first paper at the First International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, Ireland in 1967, presiding as the longest-serving president of the James Joyce Society, and Advisory Editor since 1987 of the influential James Joyce Quarterly. With a deep love of literature and literary criticism, he was an author or editor of numerous influential scholarly works on James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, and Herman Melville, and was completing a book on Wallace Stevens at the time of his death.

Sidney was intensely curious about history and politics and always sought to develop a connection with everyone he met. He will be remembered as a loving husband, father and grandfather, always devoted to his family, a brilliant scholar, mentor, and a generous mentor and friend to many. Sidney is leaving a large hole and many memories in the lives of all that knew him.

Sidney was born in the Bronx, NY, the youngest son of Russian Jewish immigrants David Feshbach and Ida Lapiner Feshbach. He attended the Birch Wathen School in Manhattan and held bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Columbia University. He resided during his lifetime in New York City, Leonia, NJ, and in Amherst for his last 40 years.

Sidney was predeceased by his parents, his brothers Herman and Bernard, and his sister Florence Nadelman. His first wife Ann Freundlich Feshbach, sadly passed away in 1976. He is survived by his wife Oriole Horch Farb Feshbach, and his daughters Riva Feshbach and Devra Feshbach-Meriney. He will be mourned by his stepsons Daniel Farb and Thomas Farb-Horch, his sons-in-law Chris Burgess and Paul Feshbach-Meriney, his dozen grandchildren Isaac, Aaron, Nathan (wife Liza), Julian, Avi (wife Keren) Shmuel (wife Channa), Miriam, Noam, Simcha, Peter, Siana, and Andreas, and his five beloved great-grandchildren.as well as 10 nieces and nephews.

The family will hold private arrangements. In lieu of flowers, the family prefers that donations be made to the James Joyce Society https://www.joycesociety.com/  or the Union of Concerned Scientists. https://www.ucsusa.org/https://www.ucsusa.org/

Memorial register at www.douglassfuneral.com