Joel BerkowitzRebecca MargolisSonia Gollance
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“I. L. (Ludovic) Bruckstein’s Night Shift (1947): An Early Encounter with the Auschwitz Sonderkommando” by Dominic Williams
“Monument and Fragment: Y. Y. Trunk’s Poyln” by Samuel Spinner
“Radiant Jews in a Dark World: Writing Poetry in Yiddish after the Holocaust” by Yael Levi
“Between Heroism and Coherence: How Yiddish Fiction Helped Child Readers Make Sense of the Holocaust” by Miriam Udel
Dominic Williams is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University. His recent publications include Matters of Testimony (2015) and The Auschwitz Sonderkommando (2019), both with Nicholas Chare. Forthcoming is The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau (edited with Sarah Cushman and Joanne Pettitt).
Samuel Spinner is the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Jewish Primitivism (Stanford University Press, 2021). Spinner is at work on a book project exploring monumentality and its aesthetics in post-Holocaust Yiddish literature.
Yael Levi is a historian of modern Yiddish culture and American Jewish history. She received her Ph.D. in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is an adjunct lecturer of Yiddish culture. Her forthcoming book is titled From the Cellar to the Top Floor: Yiddish Press in the United States, 1870–1900 (Magness University Press, 2023). Recently she published The Spirit that Materials Bear: Selected Poems, A Bilingual Edition of Devorah Fogel’s Poetry and Montages (Jerusalem 2022). During the academic year 2023-2024, she is a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University.Her articles have appeared in the Jewish Quarterly Review, American Jewish History, and Jewish Social Studies, among others.
Miriam Udel is Associate Professor of German Studies and Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory University. Her publications include Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, (New York University Press, 2020) and forthcoming is Umbrella Sky: Children’s Literature and Modern Jewish Worldmaking (under contract with Princeton University Press, forthcoming early 2025).
