Jonathan Vidgop

Jonathan Vidgop is a theatre director, author, screenwriter, and founder of the Am haZikaron Institute for Jewish family history in Tel Aviv. Born in Leningrad in 1955, he was expelled from university in 1974 and worked as a locksmith, loader, and White Sea sailor before army service in the Arctic. He immigrated to Israel in 1989. Vidgop received a presidential writing grant; his latest book was published by NLO, and his stories appeared in Los Angeles Review and Pembroke Magazine. His piece Nomads won Meridian’s Editors’ Prize in Prose.