Marc Caplan

Scholar of Literature

Marc Caplan graduated from Yale University and received his PhD from NYU. Since 2004 - professor of Yiddish studies at Johns Hopkins University, Indiana University Bloomington and Yale University. At present - guest professor and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wroclaw. Author of books and articles on Yiddish modernism, including: Like Moths to a Flame: Yiddish Modernism and German Modernity in the Weimar Republic.

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