Dr Andrew Firestone is a retired  psychiatrist with a lifelong interest in Yiddish poetry.

He has authored the websites

Yiddishpoetry.org

YosselBirstein.org

YisroelShtern.org

and in 2015 published Shtern’s complete poems in book form, with an Introduction by Yitskhok Niborski.

see

https://forward.com/culture/309805/the-gloom-and-redemption-of-yiddish-poet-yisroel-shtern/

He is a Life Member of Kadimah  in Melbourne.

Contact Andrew at:

afire@andrewfirestone.au