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Eddy Portnoy

Eddy Portnoy is academic adviser and exhibitions curator at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He is the author of Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press (Stanford University Press).

Winter 2026

The Emeser Detective: The Adventures of a Yiddish Shamus

Eddy Portnoy

Jewish problems solved by the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes.

Winter 2021

The Yiddish-Speaking Hitmen’s Union

Eddy Portnoy

What are we to make of Szczepan Twardoch, a non-Jewish Pole who has written a crime novel featuring a volatile Jewish gangster who, among, many nefarious acts, slices and dices a fellow Jew?