Contributors

Abstract

NATHAN COHEN is an Associate Professor at the Center for Yiddish Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel. His research focuses on East European Jewish cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on modern Yiddish literature. His most recent book, Yiddish – the Linguistic Leap: from a Common Dialect to a Cultural and Literary Language (2020) [Hebrew], deals with the changing reading habits in Yiddish in the Russian Empire and Poland between 1865 and 1914. Since 1998 he has been the Associate Editor of Yad Vashem Studies.