Miriam Trinh

Miriam Trinh was born in Poland and raised in Germany. She earned her B.A. in Yiddish and Philosophy from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and her M.A. from the Sorbonne in Paris and Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg. She wrote her doctoral dissertation at Hebrew University and held a post-doc at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Since 1999 she has taught Yiddish language and culture in Paris, Oxford, Vilna, Strasbourg, New York and Tel Aviv, among others. Currently, she teaches at Hebrew University. She has published work on modern Yiddish literature, and Holocaust literature in particular. She translates into and from Yiddish, and together with Eliezer Niborski she founded the Yiddish center “Yo—Yiddish Ort,” which offers both online and in-person Yiddish programming.