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…considerable experience as a performer in both Hebrew and Yiddish. A graduate of Berkley High School, she went on to the University of Michigan, where she studied compara- tive Hebrew and Yiddish literature and earned a master's degree in Near Eastern studies. Mechnikov was assistant director of the American Technion Society; ran a start-up publishing business for two years; and has done Yiddish transla- tions for the National Center for Jewis...…

















































