Sarah
Biskowitz

Educator, cultural activist, and community leader dedicated to Jewish learning and social justice. 

Sarah Biskowitz works at the Jewish Women's Archive in Boston as Manager of the Rising Voices Fellowship, a ten-month program for young Jewish women and nonbinary individuals in 10th-12th grades who have a passion for writing and a strong interest in feminism, Judaism, and social justice. 

Sarah hails from Milwaukee, WI. After graduating from Smith College, she served as the Richard S. Herman fellow in bibliography and exhibitions at the Yiddish Book Center, and then completed the Year Program at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. Her work has been published in Jewish Currents, Hey Alma, Pakn Treger, Gashmius Magazine, and In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies.

Sarah is a co-founder and an organizing committee chair of Farbindungen: A Yiddish Studies Conference. From 2020 to 2022, she co-led the online progressive bilingual group Rad Yiddish. On Instagram, over 5,250 people follow the feminist Yiddish account, @yiddishistke, that she co-created. An alum of five Yiddish language summer intensives, she has spoken about Yiddish culture at the Maine Conference for Jewish Life, the Association for Jewish Studies Conference, and Yiddish New York

Sarah's passions include celebrating feminist history and literature, planning and facilitating Jewish events, and creating accessible and dynamic new Yiddish content. She aspires to draw from the Yiddish cultural tradition to build a more inclusive and vibrant Jewish community and a more equitable world.