Avram Mlotek is a rabbi, cantor, licensed social worker, and writer. He is a grandchild of Holocaust survivors and noted Yiddish culturalists, Yosl and Chana Mlotek, whom Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer called “the Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song.” Mlotek served as an advisor and consultant for www.yiddishsongs.org, the world’s largest online collection of Yiddish music, and is the co-creator and librettist of the Drama Desk Award winning Amid Falling Walls, an operetta featuring Yiddish songs from the Holocaust, recently adapted by PBS AllArts for television. He is the author of four books: Why Jews Do That or 30 Questions Your Rabbi Never Answered, Passover in a Pandemic(written in Yiddish and English), Butterfly, and The Torah of Social Media; his writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News and nearly every major Jewish news publication. Avram is the proud Tati to Revaya, Hillel Yosl, and Shabtai.
