Samuel J. Spinner is the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His book Jewish Primitivism (Stanford 2021) won the 2022 book prize of the Modern Language Association for studies in Germanic languages and literatures. He is currently working on a book on the aesthetics of monumentality in post-Holocaust literature.
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