Emanuel S. Goldsmith is a professor of Yiddish and Jewish Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, and Rabbi of Congregation M'vakshe Derekh in Scarsdale, New York. He has lectured widely on the topic of modern Jewish literature and thought. He is the editor of the two-volume anthology Yiddish Literature in America, 1870-2000. With Mel Scult, he edited Dynamic Judaism: The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan, available from Fordham University Press. His other publications include Thinkers and Teachers of Modern Judaism and Events and Movements in Modern Judaism.

"Of great value. I recommend it to everyone interested in Yiddish and Jewish culture." -- -Isaac Bashevis Singer Nobel Prize Laureate