David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar. His work has appeared in Salmagundi, The American Scholar, and Woven Tale Press, among others. In his role as editor of the Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Trust he has published Old Truths and New Cliché s (Princeton University Press), a collection of Singer's essays, and a new translation of the canonical story Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition (Restless Books). Among Stromberg's recent writing is a series of speculative essays, including " A Short Inquiry into the End of the World" (The Massachusetts Review), " The Eternal Hope of the Wandering Jew" (The Hedgehog Review), and " To Kill an Intellectual" (The Fortnightly Review). He is based in Jerusalem.