Yehudah DovBer Zirkind is a senior research fellow at the Herzog College for the Research of Hasidism and the David Cardozo Academy in Jerusalem. In addition, he is a graduate student of Yiddish literature at Tel Aviv University and a researcher and lecturer on a wide range of topics in Jewish studies. His research interests include: Jewish thought, Hasidism, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, Yiddish music and folklore, and Judaic bibliography.