Faith Jones

Faith Jones is a librarian and translator of Yiddish literature. Her translations have appeared in numerous poetry journals and in Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars, an anthology from Warner Books. Her scholarly articles, on topics as diverse as McCarthyism, library history and Yiddish poets, have appeared in Canadian Jewish Studies and the forthcoming issue of Judaica Librarianship. She has contributed entries to several forthcoming encyclopedias: the Yiddish writers volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, the revised edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica, and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. She co-produced, with Henry Sapoznik, “Live From KlezKamp,” a double-CD anthology of live recordings from the famous annual music retreat. She is Yiddish editor of and a contributor to Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, published by Indiana University Press.