History Of Yiddish Studies

by Dov-Ber Kerler

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

Boris Karloff is the pen name of Dov-Ber Kerler. Born in Moscow in 1958, he lived, studied, and taught in Jerusalem until 1984, in Oxford until 2000, and since 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana, where he holds the Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies. Has published five books of Yiddish poetry, including one with his father, the poet Josef Kerler (1918-2000). His Yiddish poetry blog can be found at elabrek, see also: kerbale, and two poems with English translation.