Brett Winestock

Brett Winestock is a Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture (Simon Dubnow) in Leipzig, Germany. He received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies from Stanford University in 2020, where he wrote a dissertation on the Soviet Jewish writer Leonid Tsypkin. Working in both Russian and Yiddish, his research focuses on Jewish literature and culture in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet space. His current research project is a collective biography of the five Soviet Yiddish writers murdered on the infamous “Night of the Murdered Poets” in 1952.