Penguin Island

Called "the best social satire ever written" (Toni Ungerer), this story examines a fictional penguin population that mirrors the foibles of human beings and provides a wickedly funny, incisive portrait of religious fanaticism.

Jordan Finkin is a scholar-librarian with a distinguished career at the intersection of Jewish studies, literary scholarship, and academic librarianship. He has held teaching and research appointments at institutions including Oxford and Harvard Universities, and currently serves as Deputy Director of Libraries and Rare Book and Manuscript Librarian at Hebrew Union College. His academic work focuses on Yiddish and Hebrew literature, modernist poetics, and translation, and his publications include translations of Mikhoel Burshtin's By the Rivers of Mazovia (2023), Siegfried Kapper's Tales from the Prague Ghetto (2021), and From the Jewish Provinces: Stories by Fradl Shtok (with Allison Schachter, 2021), which won the Modern Language Association's Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies.