Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and the host of the NEPR podcast In Contrast. He has written&nbsp;Quixote: The Novel and the World (2015), Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America (2016), Borges, the Jew (2017), and The Wall (2018).&nbsp;&nbsp;He has recently written&nbsp;The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (Pittsburgh), and his book-long poem “The Wall” (also Pittsburgh) won the 2019 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry.

Ilan Stavans

Josh Lambert is the academic director of the Yiddish Book Center and visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s the author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (2009) and Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (2014), and the co-editor, with Ilan Stavans, of&nbsp;How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (2020).

Josh Lambert

The Old in the New: Introducing “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

The Art of Prestige

The Lady with the Borzoi

The History of Prestige: Blanche Knopf and Literary Culture

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

James Deen vs. the Nebbishes

Josh Lambert is the academic director of the Yiddish Book Center and visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s the author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (2009) and Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (2014), and the co-editor, with Ilan Stavans, of&nbsp;How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (2020).