| Mikhail Krutikov, Assistant Professor in Jewish-Slavic Cultural Relations at the University of Michigan. His areas of interest include Yiddish literature and contemporary Jewish writing in Europe, particularly in Russian and German. Krutikov writes two weekly columns on European culture and politics for the Yiddish Forverts. Currently, he is editing the section on Modern Yiddish literature for the forthcoming YIVO Encyclopedia Jews in Eastern Europe and working on a book on Yiddish intellectual culture in interwar Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. |