Jonathan Brent

Jonathan Brent (born 1949) is an American academic, author, historian and publisher. As a publisher, he is the director of the Annals of Communism series, which he founded in 1992. He is currently the CEO and executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, as well as Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature at Bard College.

Biography Jonathan Brent was born on December 2, 1949, to bookstore-owning parents Stuart and Jeanette Brent, a pianist; Jeanette died in 1954. He received a B.A. from Columbia University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago. In 2019, Brent received the Cross of the Knight of the Order of Merits to Lithuania for the "promotion of cooperation between Lithuania and YIVO and for the preservation of pre-War Jewish archives in Lithuania (United States of America)."

Works

Books published The History of the Yiddish Language The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe The New Yiddish Library The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania, by Herman Kruk

Books authored Stalin's Last Crime Inside the Stalin Archives plus Book Interview at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on November 12, 2008