Jay Saper

Jay Saper is an artist, translator, educator, and organizer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They have taught Antifascist Yiddish for Beginners at Middlebury College and received the Yiddish Book Center translation fellowship to translate the poetry of Vilna partisan Rikle Glezer. Jay has served as artist in residence at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt where they created papercuts of Jewish women in the resistance. Jay’s artist books and zines honoring the legacy of Yiddish print and activist culture, under the imprint Pashkevil Press, are held in the collection of the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jay is coeditor of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Wendy’s Subway 2023).