| David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Professor in Yiddish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. In 1981 (with Alan Mintz) he co-founded Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, published by Indiana University Press, and has served since 1998 as Editor-in-Chief of the New Yiddish Library, published by Yale University Press. Major publications include Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Harvard, 1984), and a companion volume, The Literature of Destruction (Harvard, 1989), The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky (1992), A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling (1995), and his most recent book, The Jewish Search for a Usable Past (1999). He has recently completed The Last Yiddish Novel: A Memoir, his first book without footnotes. |