Dovid Braun

Dovid Braun has taught Yiddish at all levels and at many of the foremost academic Yiddish programs worldwide. He has been a faculty member teaching Yiddish language, Yiddish linguistics, or general linguistics at Harvard University; Hebrew University (Jerusalem); University of Pennsylvania; Hampshire College/Yiddish Book Center; Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw); YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in its summer programs at Columbia University, NYU, and now Bard College; Gratz College; Workmen’s Circle (Boston; NYC). In the general field of Yiddish he has worked as a translator, researcher, dialect/pronunciation coach for performers, presenter on Yiddish-language pedagogy and topics in folklore, and a decipherer of handwritten documents.