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Writer, translator and financial software applications specialist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Weaver is a playwright, actor, director, oral storyteller, Yiddish translator and union stagehand who lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. They are the co-artistic director of The People’s Puppet Parade (a Yiddish processional theatre collective) and are currently translating and adapting Sholem Asch’s drama “Shabbtai Tsvi” for immersive performance.

Shloyme Gilbert’s haunting, atmospheric vignette based on his own experiences in a sanatorium.

Ishai Mishory is a PhD Student in Columbia University’s Department of Religion.

Mishory examines the collaborative work of art historian Rachel Wischnitzer (1885-1989), and Jewish-German designer and typographer Franzisca Baruch (1901-1989), demonstrating that Baruch’s revival of medieval Hebrew letterforms in her work on Rimon/Milgroym and her use of fragmentation as a strategy for visual, textual, and cultural revival was in conversation with Wischnitzer’s scholarship.