About me
Sheva Zucker was the executive director of the League for Yiddish and the editor of its magazine Afn Shvel from 2005-2020. She has taught and lectured on Yiddish language, literature and culture on five continents and
has taught Yiddish for over two decades in the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, currently under the auspices of Bard College and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. She is the author of the textbooks Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I & II and most recently, Fun Yener Zayt Shvel, a collection of her writings for Afn Shvel magazine. Her research and translations focus mostly on women in Yiddish literature.
