Debora (Dvorah) Vogel: Yiddish poetry from Lviv

Anastasiya Lyubas is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto (2020-2021). Anastasiya is currently co-editing the Special Issue on Debora Vogel for In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies (forthcoming spring 2021). She is the author of Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel, a ground-breaking scholarly collection dedicated to the work of the Polish and Yiddish Modernist writer Debora Vogel (Boston: Academic Studies Press, October 2020). Anastasiya is also the author of White Words: Essays, Letters, and Reviews by Debora Vogel, a scholarly volume in Ukrainian (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2019). She holds a PhD from Binghamton University (2018) and was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship (2012–2014) and of fellowships at the

Iryna Starovoyt is a poet, essayist, and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University. She graduated from Lviv University in 2001, as did Vogel herself in 1924. She teaches courses on Modernist Women Writers and Activists, Critical and Creative Thinking, History of Ideas and Cultural Practices. Member of PEN Ukraine, she authored three volumes of poetry and a number of essays. Her poetry touches upon the neglected 20th 

Willieam Blacker is Assistant Professor in the Comparative Study of Eastern European Culture at the School of Slavic and Eastern European Studies, University College London. His research interests are literature and culture of Ukraine and Poland, as well as cultural memory in Eastern Europe. His monograph "Memory, City and Legacy of World War II in Central and Eastern Europe" was published by Routledge in 2019. He is co-author of Remembering Katyn (Polity, 2012) and co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013). He has published extensively on Ukrainian, Polish and Russian literature and culture. He also translated the works of several