Alec (Leyzer) Burko

Leyzer Burko is a PhD candidate in Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he works on the history of Yiddish linguistics—and its various grand projects—in the postwar period. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Posen Foundation and YIVO, writes for the Yiddish Forverts, and appears in productions by the Folksbiene.