Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska is Professor of American and Comparative Literature and Head of the Center for Jewish Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. A translator from English and Yiddish, she has held visiting fellowships at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Columbia University and Brandeis University. Her major publications include Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Poland: Exile and Return [in Polish] (1994), Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (together with Antony Polonsky, 2001) and Shades of Identity: Jewish Literature As a Multilingual Phenomenon [in Polish] (2004).