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BEATRICE SILVERMAN WEINREICH (editor), a research associate in folklore at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, has published numerous articles in academic journals on Yiddish culture and folklore, as well as a basic bibliography for research in that field. She has co-edited the journal Yidisher Folklor and has contributed to the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, the third volume of which is forthcoming. She is currently preparing a monograph on Yiddish riddles.
LEONARD WOLF (translator) is a fiction writer, dramatist, poet, biographer, and one of our foremost translators of Yiddish. He is the author of the novels The Glass Mountain and The False Messiah, and of the nonfiction book Bluebeard: The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais. Among his translations from Yiddish are The Certificate by Isaac Bashevis Singer and The Family Mashber by Der Nister. He is a professor emeritus of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University and has been translator-in-residence at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
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