Nomi Falk is a rising senior at Bryn Mawr College studying anthropology, and is a Hanna Holborn Gray Research Fellow studying authenticity and language stewardship among contemporary secular Yiddish enthusiasts. Nomi speaks Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, French, and a bit of Arabic, and loves language learning and teaching, as well as cooking, knitting, and natural bodies of water. 

Iris Malke Morrell is a writer, student, and translator from California interested in Jewish mysticism, Yiddish literature, and psychoanalysis. A PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, her dissertation is titled "Without Law, Without Judge: Mysticism and Catastrophe in Modern Yiddish Literature." Since 2024 she has taught Yiddish classes and organized poetry readings and translation workshops at Der Nister Jewish Cultural Center. Her writing has appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Review, and elsewhere.

Jonah Mac Gelfand (he/him) is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Boston. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Gashmius Magazine, which publishes progressive neo-Hasidic art, poetry, and writing. Before starting rabbinical school, he got his MA in Jewish Studies from the Graduate Theological Union, where his research focused on neo-Hasidic leadership, and his writing has been published in both popular and academic journals. He is also one of the assistant editors with Jacob Chatinover of Or N. Rose's forthcoming anthology Returning Higher: Hasidic Inspiration for the High Holy Day Journey.

Yankl (Jake) Krakovsky  is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and Yiddishist based in western Massachusetts. They have worked professionally for over a decade as an actor, puppeteer, writer, director, dramaturg, teaching artist, and clown. Yankl has received residencies from Atlanta’s Tony Award–winning Alliance Theatre and the Collaborative Arts Lab in Arezzo, Italy. He is a current field fellow with the Wexler Oral History Project and was a 2024–2025 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow. Yankl's newest work, a short film in paper puppetry created in collaboration with illustrator Madison Safer, will premiere at the Center for Puppetry Arts' Xperimental Puppetry Theatre in April 2026.

Davi Frank is a recent graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Near Eastern Studies. Prior to arriving at Princeton, Davi studied for two years at Yeshivat Ma’ale Gilboa, where he grew in his love for Torah learning of all kinds, including Hasidic thought and practice. His undergraduate research focused on the confluence between religion and environmental politics in the contemporary Middle East. He looks to continue his studies next year at Tel Aviv University, beginning an MA in Environmental Policy and Sociology.

Pamela Brenner is a PhD student in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department at Harvard University, where she studies Yiddish literature and Jewish culture. Her areas of research include Yiddish popular fiction, literary representations of women, the female religious experience in Eastern Europe, and Jewish-Christian relations. She is completing a translation of short stories by the popular 19th century author Shomer. In addition to her academic work, Pamela serves as Mashgicha Ruchanit at Harvard Hillel and Manhiga Toranit & Community Scholar at Congregation Shaarei Tefillah, and is a member of Ohr Torah Stone’s International Halakha Scholars Program. Pamela has held fellowships with YIVO and the Yiddish Book Center, holds degrees from Barnard College and the University of Oxford, and studied Torah at Migdal Oz and Drisha.

Samuel Page is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. His current research focuses on Russian- and Yiddish-language texts of early-twentieth-century Eastern Europe which deal with ideas of cultural preservation and "salvage" through aesthetic strategies of imitation, an under-studied driver of literary modernism. He has written about Yiddish for In geveb and translates from Yiddish and Russian. 

Prof. Meylekh (PV) Viswanath teaches finance at Pace University, New York, NY. He has a Ph.D. in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago and is interested in how ancient economies intersected with religion. One recent publications is, “Could What You Don’t Know Hurt You? Information Asymmetry in Land Markets in Late Antiquity,” in The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics.

Molly Newman graduates this June with a bachelor’s in Jewish Studies from McGill University; her honours thesis discusses representations of the Holocaust in the poetry of Malka Locker. Molly has worked to foster interest in Yiddish and Jewish cultural memory as co-president of McGill’s Jewish Studies Students Association, and through internships at the Jewish Galicia Museum and the Jewish Public Library Archives. In September, she will be starting as a 2026-2027 bibliography fellow at the Yiddish Book Center.

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