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Daniel Kraft

b. 1991

Current City, State, Country

Richmond, Virginia, USA

Biography

Daniel Kraft is a writer, poet, translator, and essayist. He holds a master’s degree in Jewish studies from Harvard Divinity School, where he was a resident at the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions. His poems and essays appear in a number of publications including Image, Jewish Currents, EcoTheo Review, and Peripheries; his translations of Yiddish, along with brief personal and critical essays, can be found in his newsletter, Di Freyd Fun Yidishn Vort/The Joy of the Yiddish Word, at danielkraft.substack.com. In addition to writing and translating, Daniel has worked as a full-time Director of Education at synagogues across the American South, and as an educator at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland.

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Education

Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MTS 2018
St. John’s College, Annapolis, BA 2013

Languages of Publication(s) and Poets Translated

Yiddish

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