JEFFREY SHANDLER is a professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He holds a Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University, and has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. Shandler is the author of Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture (2005), a study of contemporary Yiddish culture, and While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (1999), which received the Saul Viener Prize by the American Jewish Historical Society as being the most significant literary contribution to the field of American Jewish history during the years 1999–2000. Among other titles, Shandler is the editor of Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust (2002), which was a Koret Jewish Book Award finalist, and his translations of Yiddish literature also include Mani-Leyb’s children’s classic Yingl-Tsingl-Khvat (1986). Jeffrey Shandler lives in New York City.