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Born in a displaced persons camp in Germany, Miriam Isaacs (language) is a native Yiddish speaker. She taught Yiddish for many years at the University of Maryland. Most recently she has been translating and lecturing. She has held fellowships from the State Department’s Fulbright Scholars program in Sweden and the Yiddish Book Center to translate Rachel Korn’s poems and Simon Dzigan’s memoir. She has also translated her father’s memoir of WWII in the USSR. A fellowship from the United States Holocaust Museum which enabled her to work with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance to make accessible to the public an important archive of recordings of Holocaust survivors made by Ben Stonehill in New York in 1948.
