Joel Berkowitz

Joel Berkowitz is Professor of English and Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A historian of the Yiddish theater 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 and Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage. He is the co-founder, with Debra Caplan, of the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, an international research group dedicated to studying, preserving, and teaching about the rich cultural legacy of the Yiddish stage.