THE VILNIUS PROGRAM IN YIDDISH

Dr. Dov-Ber Kerler (Senior Research Fellow, Lecturer, Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University)

Professor David N. Miller (Assoc. Professor and Yiddish Program Director, The Ohio State University)

Professor Jerold Frakes (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Southern California)

Ms. Anna Verschik (Lecturer in Yiddish, University of Estonia, Tartu)

Academic Director: Dr. Dov-Ber Kerler (Oxford University)

Cultural Activities Coordinator: Mr. Mendy Cahan (Yung YiDish, Jerusalem)

Founder and Academic Advisor: Professor Dovid Katz (Yale University)

Founder and Academic Consultant: Professor Meiris Shubas (Vilnius University)

Professor David E. Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary; YIVO)

Professor Ewa Geller (Institute for German Philology and Fellow, M. Anielewicz Center, Warsaw University)

Professor Barbara Harshav (Multi-lingual translator of prose and poetry)

Professor Benjamin Harshav (J & H Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature; Professor of Slavic Language and Literature; Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University)

Mr. Hirsh Hasid (Head of the Jewish Community of Grodno)

Ms. Miriam Hoffman (Lecturer, Columbia University, NY; playwright)

Professor Eli Katz (Visiting Professor of Yiddish, University of California, Berkeley)

Mr. Hirsh Reles (Yiddish author, Minsk)

Professor Edward Stankiewicz (B. A. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University)

Mr. Shleyme Weinstein (Head of the Jewish Community of Brest [Brisk])