About

Madeleine Cohen received her Ph.D in Comparative Literature with a designated emphasis in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a translation fellow at the Yiddish Book Center in 2015, and in the summers she works with the Helix Project, an educational travel program to Eastern Europe run by the nonprofit organization Yiddishkayt. Madeleine’s research focuses on modernist Yiddish literature from the interwar period. She is interested in the connections between representation of place and politics in Yiddish literature. Her dissertation is entitled, “Here and Now: The Modernist Poetics of Do’ikayt.” Madeleine is the Editor-in-Chief of In geveb. Her aliases include Mandy and Mindl.