Joel Berkowitz is Director of the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies and Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A historian of the Yiddish theatre and translator of Yiddish drama, he is the author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, editor of Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches, and co-editor of Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical Anthology and Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage. He is the co-founder of the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project (yiddishstage.org), a research group applying Digital Humanities methods and tools to the study and preservation of Yiddish theatre.
Professor Berkowitz is currently working on two solo projects: a study of how Yiddish playwrights responded to the Holocaust and its aftermath in the years immediately following World War II, and an anthology of English translations of one-act Yiddish plays.
Yiddish theatre and drama, Jewish theatre and performance, modern Jewish fiction
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Jewish literature in various genres; Yiddish literature, theatre, and culture; modern Jewish history
Director, Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, UWM