Yehudah DovBer Zirkind

Yehudah DovBer Zirkind is a senior research fellow at the Hasidic Research Institute of Herzog College and the David Cardozo Academy in Jerusalem. In addition, he is a researcher, writer and lecturer on a wide range of topics in Jewish studies. His research interests include: contemporary Jewish thought, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, Hasidism, Yiddish music and folklore, and Judaic bibliography. Yehudah studied at various Chabad yeshivot, and he is currently a graduate student of Yiddish literature at Tel Aviv University. His forthcoming thesis is entitled “The Sacred, the Secular, and the Sacrilegious in the Life and Literary Works of Chaim Grade.”