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Visiting Assistant Professor in Judaic Studies, Virginia Tech

Sean Sidky is Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Virginia Tech. His scholarship focuses on American Judaism, Jewish literature in Yiddish and English, and the Holocaust, and he teaches courses on Judaism, including history, religion, and culture; the Holocaust, Religion in the United States, and popular culture.

Bluesky: @ssidky.bsky.social

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Richard S. Herman Senior Fellow, Yiddish Book Center

Currently the Richard S. Herman Senior Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, where he spends his days surrounded by mountains of books, Caleb also holds an MA in Comparative Literature with a certificate in Jewish Studies from the University of Toronto. His research interests include Yiddish science pedagogy, book history, and digital Yiddish and meme studies, and he is passionate about access to knowledge and public-oriented scholarship. Caleb is also a very amateur letterpress printer, printing in English and Yiddish.

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PhD Candidate in Jewish Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins 

Corbin is a PhD student and translator based in Baltimore. Their research focuses on Modern Yiddish poetry and poetics.

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PhD student in modern Jewish thought, University of Toronto

An alumna of Princeton, Harvard, and Fulbright Germany, Carolyn studies the reception of ancient religious textual traditions in modern Jewish and Christian thought, with an emphasis on the problem of evil and death of God. She lives in Niagara Falls, NY with her husband Michael, their dog Peaches, and their three cats, Maui, Molly, and Potato.

Twitter: @cebeardedbard

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MD Student, University of Queensland-Oschner Medical Program

Cameron is a TikTok content creator and Yiddishist from the Chicagoland Jewish community. She is passionate about social media as a forum to share Yiddish language, history, and culture. She was the '21-'22 Communications Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, and is completing her MD with the University of Queensland-Oschner Medical Program.

TikTok/Instagram: @c.o.bernstein

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MPhil Student in Political Theory, University of Oxford

Sophie Cardin is a DPhil student in Political Theory at the University of Oxford. She studies utopia and the history of Yiddish political thought. She holds an MPhil in Political Theory from Oxford and a BA in Political Science from Colorado College. 

Website: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/sophie-cardin
Twitter: @SophCardin Bsky: @sophiecardin.bsky.social

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PhD Student in Yiddish and Jewish Studies, University of Toronto

Jacob's research focuses on the Yiddish literature of the Haskalah, reading it as an articulation of modern Jewish political thought. Jacob also works on critical theory, literary criticism, and theorizing Yiddish, and is an especially big admirer of Walter Benjamin.

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Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler earned her MA in 2021 from the Folklore at UNC-Chapel Hill researching the music and writings of Jewish partisans during the Holocaust. She is interested in the history of Folklore as a discipline, Yiddish as a living language, the politics of secular Jewish identity in the United States, abortion rights and accessibility, labor organizing, and girlhood (broadly construed). She works in abortion funding, lives in Los Angeles, and has two perfect cats. 

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Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Jules' research explores Polish-Jewish history and musical life in the Warsaw Ghetto; their most recent project explores representations of Beethoven in Yiddish children's literature. They received a PhD in Modern European History from Indiana University Bloomington and they currently teach about European and global history at Harvard University. 

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MA candidate in Yiddish Studies

Lesley Turner is a student in the Yiddish Studies Program at the University of Toronto. Her research project is on Chava Rosenfarb and translation. 

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PhD Student in Literary Studies, University of Warsaw

Jakub holds degrees in Law and Jewish Studies, which he pursued at the College of Inter-Area Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. For his PhD, he prepares a dissertation entitled “Celia Dropkin’s Oeuvre. Literary Traditions and Contexts of Translation.” His research interests include Yiddish literature, particularly poetry written by women.