Lisa Newman is the director of communications - she's constantly scouring our website for English-language recordings, articles, and oral histories that provide background for her work on Pakn Treger and The Shmooze.
Christa Whitney discovered Yiddish while studying comparative literature as an undergraduate. In her current position as director of the Center's Wexler Oral History Project she's is constantly exploring the various media collected by the Center.
Eddy Portnoy is one of the leading scholars of Yiddish popular culture. He loves—and knows—it all: cartoons, humor magazines, puppet shows, the underbelly of the Yiddish Press, and so much more, Here's what he found in our collections.
