I co-edited a book about American Girl and the Pleasant Company with KC Hysmith for the University Press of Mississippi. It’s available for pre-order now and will be published on May 15th, 2025!

current Lilith Magazine contributor; former politics writer at the Jewish Women's Archive + editorial fellow with Southern Cultures

I served as the 2023 Folklore Specialist for the Museum at Eldridge Street’s EGG ROLLS, EGG CREAMS, and EMPANADAS Festival.

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I earned my MA in 2021 from the Folklore at UNC-Chapel Hill researching the music and writings of Jewish partisans during the Holocaust. I’m interested in the history of Folklore as a discipline, Yiddish as a living language, the politics of secular Jewish identity in the United States, abortion rights and accessibility, labor organizing, and girlhood (broadly construed). I work in abortion funding, live in Los Angeles, and have two perfect cats.

justineorlovskyschnitzler@gmail.com