Dov Ber Kotlerman is Associate Professor at the Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar Ilan University, where he was Academic Director of the Rena Costa Center for Yiddish  Studies in 2011-14.  He is the author and editor of a number of  monographs and collections in the field of Eastern European  Jewish  (Yiddish)  Culture and  Jewish-Asian Connections, among them Broken  Heart/Broken Wholeness: The Post-Holocaust Plea  for Jewish Reconstruction of the Soviet Yiddish Writer Der Nister (Boston  2017) and Mizrekh: Jewish Studies in the Far  East I-II  (Frankfurt am Main  2009 and 2011). He served as scholar-in-residence or visiting  professor at the Yeshiva University  (2012),  the Tokyo Kokushikan University  (2013), the  University of Cape Town  (2015),  and the Vytautas  Magnus  University in Kaunas, Lithuania  (2016).