William Pimlott

Dr. William Pimlott joined the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism in October 2021 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr Pimlott’s current project investigates the global Yiddish press, focusing on the polycentric development of Jewish journalism, politics and aesthetics in the period 1890-1920. He recently completed a visiting lectureship at Royal Holloway, University of London (2023), on the project Global Jewish Studies as/or Holocaust Studies, and he finished his PhD, Yiddish in Britain: Immigration, Culture and Politics, 1896-1910, at UCL in 2022. Dr. Pimlott has written for the London Review of Books, Tribune and Jewish Currents and recently published an article in Shofar, with colleague Alex Grafen, on Leo Koenig and Yiddish Art History. This year (2023) he is co-publishing a Yiddish journal, di Naye Levone, dedicated to new writing in Yiddish.