Jordan Finkin is Rare Book and Manuscript Librarian at the Klau Library of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. A specialist in modern Jewish literatures and Hebrew and Yiddish poetry, he is the author of several books as well as numerous scholarly essays and articles. His most recent book, Exile as Home: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of Leyb Naydus, explores the poetry of the Yiddish poet Leyb Naydus. He is also a literary translator; his translation of Leyb Rashkin’s novel, The People of Godlbozhits, appeared in 2017.
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Klau Library — Hebrew Union College
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Texts & Translation
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