Miriam Koral

MA, Founding Director of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, known since 1999 for offering active, high quality and comprehensive Yiddish cultural and educational programming (www.yiddishi.org); lecturer in Yiddish at UCLA where she has taught language, literature, and film since 1999. A native Yiddish speaker, she is a published poet and writer in Yiddish and in English and a Yiddish translator. Her original works and translations have appeared in numerous print and on-line publications. Her most recent book-length translation is the biography Jacob Dinezon, the Mother Among Our Classic Yiddish Writers, by Shmuel Rozhanski (Jewish Storyteller Press (2016)). Yiddish is her second career, the first being as an Environmental Planner and consultant. She founded the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Project and coordinated most of the Playa Vista Master Plan Environmental Report.