Board of Directors

Ira J. Wagner, Chair
President of European Private Finance, American Capital
Bethesda, Maryland

Lawrence Kaplen, Vice Chair
Screenwriter
New York, New York

Lee Hutt, Clerk
Psychotherapist, Sculptor
South Hadley, Massachusetts

Aaron Lansky, President (ex-officio)
Founder and President, Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts

Susan Bronson, Executive Director (ex-officio)
Executive Director, Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts

Robert Loeb, Treasurer
Treasurer, Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts

Martin I. Broder
Cardiologist, Baystate Medical Center
Springfield, Massachusetts

Debra Caplan
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Baruch College, City University of New York
New York, New York

Abby J. Cohen
Advisory Director and Senior Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs
New York, New York

Emily Bowen Cohen
Painter and Writer
Los Angeles, California

Jeremy Dauber
Atran Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture
Columbia University
New York, New York

Penina Migdal Glazer
Levin Professor Emerita, Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts

Zachary Gozali
Partner, Davidson Kempner European Partners
London, England

Danny Greenspun
Chair, Greenspun Media Group
Las Vegas, Nevada

Arthur Horwitz
Founder and President, Renaissance Media and Detroit Jewish News Foundation
Detroit, Michigan

Sharon Karmazin, Immediate Past Chair
Producer
New York, New York

Leona Kern
R.W. Kern Management, LLC
New York, New York

Luis Lainer
Partner, Lainer Development
Van Nuys, California

Josh Lambert
Sophia Moses Robison Associate Prof. of Jewish Studies and English, and Director, Jewish Studies Program, Wellesley College
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Lief D. Rosenblatt, Chair Emeritus
Founder and Principal, Satellite Asset Management
New York, New York

Nina F. Schor
Deputy Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH
Kensington, Maryland

Ruth Stark
Director, CUNY Institute for Macromolecular Assemblies
City College of New York
New York, New York

David S. Steiner
Principal, Steiner Equities Group, LLC
Roseland, New Jersey

Kenneth Turan
Film Critic, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California

Walter A. Winshall
Principal, Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC
Boston, Massachusetts

Our Honorary Board memorializes Board members and their extraordinary service to the Center

Eugene Driker z'l