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MIRIAM BORDEN
Miriam Borden is a doctoral student in Yiddish at the University of Toronto. She is a researcher and translator of Yiddish archival materials at the Ontario Jewish Archives, and leads walking tours of Kensington Market, Toronto’s historic Jewish neighbourhood. She has consulted for the Yidlife Crisis web series and been featured on Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast, in Yiddish. She is an Oral History Field Fellow and 2019 - 2020 Pedagogy Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Miriam sits on the board of the Ashkenaz Festival of Jewish Culture. For her piquant public presentations on pickled fish, she is fast becoming known as the ”herring lady.”
You can follow Miriam and her award-winning Yiddish book collection on Instagram @bikher_chick
Also catch her taking over the Ontario Jewish Archives Instagram account every Friday for the #YiddishWordoftheWeek. Check out @ontariojewisharchives for your weekly dose of Yiddish!