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Marc Caplan  ProfessorYiddish Language, Literature, and Culture German and Romance Languages and Literatures The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore MD 21218 Telephone: 410-516-8768 MARC CAPLAN, the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Professor in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. His primary interest as a scholar is to place the study of Yiddish literature in comparative contexts. His next book-length project will explore Yiddish literature written in Weimar Germany, considered in comparision with contemporaneous German literature, theater, and film. In addition to his academic commitments to the study of Yiddish literature, Dr. Caplan writes a regular column in Yiddish on popular culture for the journal Afn shvel. |