Professor, Germanic Studies
Professor, Jewish Studies
Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair, Yiddish Studies
Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature
Affiliated Faculty, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Dov-Ber Kerler holds the Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies and is professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies at Indiana University. His main fields of interest are the dialectology, sociology, and the linguistic analysis of Yiddish. He is the author of The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish (Oxford, 1995) and various papers and articles on Yiddish language, dialectology, and literary history. He is Co-editor of Oxford Yidish - Studies in Yiddish Language, Literature and Folklore (in Yiddish, Oxford 1995), and Yerusholaimer Almanakh Annual for Yiddish Literature and Culture (Jerusalem 1993-1998); and Editor of History of Yiddish Studies (Chur - London - Paris - New York 1991), The Politics of Yiddish, Studies in Language, Literature and Society (Walnut Creek - London - New Delhi 1998), and the renewed Yerusholaimer Almanakh: periodic collections for Yiddish literature, culture and scholarship (Jerusalem 2003, 2008 and 2012).
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