Josh Lambert is the academic director of the Yiddish Book Center and, this fall, a visiting professor of American Studies at Princeton University. He’s the author of American Jewish Fiction (2009) and Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (2014). He’s working on a new book, The Literary Mafia, about the role of Jews in American publishing, and the research for this article was supported by a Helm Fellowship from the Lilly Library, at Indiana University in Bloomington, which holds Lish’s papers.
Books in order of publication:
American Jewish Fiction (2009)
Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (2014)
The Literary Mafia (2022)
Oak Lawn Library Friends 