Pamela Brenner

Pamela Brenner is a PhD student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, specializing in Yiddish literature and Jewish culture. She received a BA from Barnard College and an MSt from the University of Oxford, both in Yiddish Studies. 

Pamela has held fellowships with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Yiddish Book Center, and the Princeton Institute for Hasidic Thought. Her areas of research include Yiddish popular fiction, the female religious experience in Eastern Europe, and Jewish-Christian relations.