a longtime teacher and a former student in YIVO's Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture. Her predecessor, Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, taught for over 30 years in this program and edited YIVO's publication Yidishe shprakh. Dr. Yitskhok- Nakhmen Shteynberg, editor 1942-1957, was one