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Zachary M. Baker

Zachary M. Baker is Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections in the Stanford University Libraries. He is editor-in-chief of Judaica Librarianship. In addition, Baker edited the books Ira Nowinski: The Photographer As Witness and Judaica in the Slavic Realm, Slavica in the Judaic Realm, and (with Bella Hass Weinberg) co-edited the five-volume Yiddish Catalog and Authority File of the YIVO Library.

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Dina Abramowicz

After surviving the Holocaust, first in the Vilna Ghetto and then with the partisans, Dina Abramowicz became the formidable head librarian of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. During her tenure, she vastly expanded the library’s collections and was regularly sought out by scholars for her prodigious memory regarding Yiddish literature, children’s literature, the Holocaust, and modern Eastern European Jewish history and culture.