Justin D. Cammy is assistant professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Smith College in Massachusetts, where he teaches courses on modern Jewish literature and Eastern European Jewish culture. He is currently completing a cultural history of the inter-war Yiddish literary and artistic group Yung-Vilne, When Yiddish Was Young. His translation from the Yiddish and introduction to Hinde Bergner’s memoir, On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870–1900, will be published by Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies in 2005.