Areas of Research/Interest: Yiddish intellectual history; Yiddish literature and sociolingustics

External Affiliations: Co-organized the inagural Rauch Conference "1929: Mapping the Jewish World."

Select Publications:

In Harness - Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism

Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development

Intensive Yiddish

Coeditor of Yiddish and the Left

Coeditor of The Shtetl: Image and Reality and Yiddish in the Contemporary World