Jordan Finkin, Ph.D.

Deputy Director of Libraries and Rare Book Manuscript Librarian

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department: Library
campus: Cincinnati

Jordan Finkin is rare book and manuscript librarian at the Klau Library, Cincinnati. He is the author of numerous academic articles as well as several scholarly monographs, most recently Exile as Home on the work of the Yiddish poet Leyb Naydus. In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Finkin is a literary translator from Yiddish, German, and French. Dr. Finkin currently serves as the co-director of Hebrew Union College Press and is also the founder and director of Naydus Press, a non-profit publisher of Yiddish literature in English translation.