An expert on Jew­ish pop­u­lar cul­ture Eddy Port­noy has an MA in Yid­dish from Colum­bia and a PhD in Jew­ish his­to­ry from JTS. The exhi­bi­tions he has cre­at­ed for YIVO have won plau­dits from The New York Times VICE The For­ward and others.