About

I am Assistant Professor and Mokin Fellow of Holocaust Studies at the University of Oregon where I teach and research in genocide and fascism studies, as well as modern Jewish cultures and intellectual history. My work focuses on the histories of Yiddish within capitalist modernity, and on how diasporic Jewish revolutionary thought and practices have circulated globally and shaped broader political and social transformations.

I’m at work on several book projects, among them The Short Century of Red Yiddish, 1917–1991. It rediscovers Soviet Yiddish culture and its globally-entangled radical politics. Red Yiddish provided new ways of thinking about Jewishness, its relation to race, gender, and power, and how diaspora can become a radical internationalist practice.

My academic essays have appeared in places like Studies in Contemporary History and In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. I also write for public venues like Jacobin Germany and the Diasporist.