NATHAN COHEN is an Associate Professor at the Center for Yiddish Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel. His research focuses on East European Jewish cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on modern Yiddish literature. His most recent book, Yiddish – the Linguistic Leap: from a Common Dialect to a Cultural and Literary Language (2020) [Hebrew], deals with the changing reading habits in Yiddish in the Russian Empire and Poland between 1865 and 1914. Since 1998 he has been the Associate Editor of Yad Vashem Studies.

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NATHAN COHEN是以色列Bar Ilan大学意第绪研究中心的副教授。他的研究重点是19世纪和20世纪东欧犹太人的文化历史以及现代意第绪语文学。他的最新著作《意第绪语-语言的飞跃：从普通方言到文化和文学语言》（2020年，希伯来语），论述了1865年至1914年俄罗斯帝国和波兰在意第绪语中不断变化的阅读习惯。自1998年以来，他一直是Yad Vashem Studies的副编辑。