Modicut Puppet Theatre: Modernism, Satire, and Yiddish Culture

Edward Portnoy is currently a PhD candidate in Modern Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is writing his dissertation on Yiddish humor and satire journals published in New York and Poland from the turn-of-the-century to 1939. He received an MA in Yiddish Studies at Columbia University in 1997 with a thesis on the lives and work of artists/performers Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler.