Dov-Ber Kerler
Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies
Professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies
Education
Fields of Interest
- History, dialectology, sociology, and the linguistic analysis of Yiddish
- History of old Yiddish literature (15th to 18th century)
- Yiddish-Slavic linguistic and cultural contacts
- Yiddish and modern Israeli Hebrew
- Modern Yiddish poetry.