Sarah Ponichtera is the Assistant Dean for Special Collections & the Gallery at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ. There she administers a combined unit in the University Libraries which includes the Archives & Special Collections and the Walsh Gallery, which share vault storage and collections processing space, and both maintain an active schedule of physical and digital exhibits. Her current translation project involves a newly discovered work of Yiddish science fiction by Leyzer Wolf.
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Seton Hall University
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