Jonathan Brent

Jonathan Brent was born on December 2, 1949, to bookstore-owning parents Stuart and Jeanette Brent, a pianist; Jeanette died in 1954. He received a B.A. from Columbia University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago. In 2019, Brent received the Cross of the Knight of the Order of Merits to Lithuania for the "promotion of cooperation between Lithuania and YIVO and for the preservation of pre-War Jewish archives in Lithuania (United States of America)." ==Works==

Books published • The History of the Yiddish Language • The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe • The New Yiddish Library • The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization • The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania, by Herman Kruk Books authored • ''Stalin's Last Crime'' • Inside the Stalin Archives plus Book Interview at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on November 12, 2008 ==Sources==