Jordan Finkin is a scholar-librarian with a distinguished career at the intersection of Jewish studies, literary scholarship, and academic librarianship. He is Head of the John Miller Burnam Classics Library at the University of Cincinnati, and has held teaching and research appointments at institutions including Oxford and Harvard Universities. His academic work focuses on Yiddish and Hebrew literature, modernist poetics, and translation, and his publications include translations of Mikhoel Burshtin's By the Rivers of Mazovia (2023), Siegfried Kapper's Tales from the Prague Ghetto (2021), and From the Jewish Provinces: Stories by Fradl Shtok (with Allison Schachter, 2021), which won the Modern Language Association's Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies.