About the Author

Lily Kahn is Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Languages at UCL. Her main research areas are Hebrew in Eastern Europe, Yiddish, and other Jewish languages. Her publications include The Verbal System in Late Enlightenment Hebrew (2009), Colloquial Yiddish (2012), The Routledge Introductory Course in Biblical Hebrew (2014), A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale (2015), Handbook of Jewish Languages (co-edited with Aaron Rubin, 2016) and North Sami: An Essential Grammar (with Riitta-Liisa Valijarvi, 2017).