How Yiddish Changed America And How America Changed Yiddish

About Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico City and is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words Spanglish Dictionary Days The Disappearance and A Critics Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories The Poetry of Pablo Neruda among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship Chiles Presidential Medal the International Latino Book Award and the Jewish Book Award. Stavanss work translated into twenty languages has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst Stanford Chicago Oxford and Dublin he is the host of the NPR podcast In Contrast. Josh Lambert is the academic director of the Yiddish Book Center and visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Hes the author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (2009) and Unclean Lips: Obscenity Jews and American Culture (2014) which received a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association of Jewish Studies and a Canadian Jewish Book Award. His reviews and essays have been published by the New York Times Book Review the Los Angeles Times the Los Angeles Review of Books Haaretz Tablet the Forward New England Public Radio and many other publications.