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Sara Feldman is Preceptor in Yiddish at Harvard University.

Anthony (Mordechai Tzvi) Russell is a performer, composer, and arranger of music in Yiddish. He has contributed writing to The Forward, Tablet, JTA, Jewish Currents and PROTOCOLS. He lives with his husband, Rabbi Michael Rothbaum, in Massachusetts.

Faith Hillis is Associate Professor of Russian History at the University of Chicago. Her next book, Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830-1930, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2021.

Faith Hillis reflects on building digital Yiddish community amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests.