Nathan Cohen is Associate Professor at the Center for Yiddish Studies at Bar Ilan University. His research focuses on Eastern European Jewish cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on modern Yiddish literature. His book Books, Writers and Newspapers: The Jewish Cultural Center in Warsaw, 1918-1942 was published in Hebrew in 2--3 by the Hebrew University Magnes Press. The book was translated into Polish and was published by the Jewish Historical Institute, ŻIH (2020). Cohen's current research project regarding the changing reading habits in Yiddish in the Russian Empire and Poland between 1865 and 1914 was published in Hebrew under the title Yiddish – the Linguistic Leap: from a Common Dialect to a Cultural and Literary Language by the Zalman Shazar Center (2020). Since 1998, he has been the associate editor of Yad Vashem Studies.