David Mazower is the research bibliographer and editorial director at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the chief curator of the Center’s permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture and the author of the newly published book and catalogue, Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity. Before joining the Center, he was a senior staff journalist with BBC World News in London and deputy curator of the Jewish Museum London. He writes for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project and is the author of Yiddish Theatre in London. His many published articles include several on his great-grandfather, Yiddish writer Sholem Asch, as well as explorations of Yiddish theater and popular culture, British Jewish history, Jewish art, and the Yiddish salon of Bronx poet Bertha Kling. He graduated in history from Cambridge University and has a postgraduate diploma in Russian.