Ber Kotlerman, native Yiddish speaker from Birobidzhan and professor of Yiddish language and literature at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Research interests: Old and Modern Yiddish Literature, S.Y.Agnon, Jewish Culture in the Soviet Union, The Birobidzhan Experiment, Jewish Names, Yiddish Journalism, Jewish Theater and Cinema, Multilingual Jewish Literature, Jews in the Far East.
