Rakhmiel Peltz, PhD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Sociolinguistics in the Department of Communication at Drexel University and Founding Director of the Judaic Studies Program, which he led for twenty years. He is a developmental biologist who specialized in molecular and cellular biology and a Yiddish linguist who focuses on the social history of Yiddish language and culture. Currently, he is writing a book comparing standardizers in biomedical research and Yiddish language standardizers who fought for a secure future for the Jewish people in modern history.