Jacqueline Nekhe Krass

Jacqueline Nekhe Krass is a writer, researcher, and Yiddish translator. In 2025, she earned a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on postwar Jewish American literature in English and Yiddish, situating it within complex histories of multilingual and multi-ethnic writing, publishing, and translation in the United States. Her writing can be found in The Millions, Peripheries: A Journal of Word and Image, Spoon River Poetry Review, Full Stop, Philip Roth Studies, Textual Practice, and elsewhere, and her work has been supported by, among others, the Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellowship, YIVO, and the American Academy for Jewish Research. She is co-chair of the Farbindungen Yiddish studies conference and, since 2025, Managing Editor of In geveb.