Prof. Shandler is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He has written several books on Holocaust remembrance and on Yiddish culture, including While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust, Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture, and Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices. His next book, Yiddish:Biography of a Language, will be published by Oxford University Press this fall.