Rober­ta New­man is an inde­pen­dent schol­ar liv­ing in New York City. She is the Direc­tor of Dig­i­tal Ini­tia­tives at the YIVO Insti­tute for Jew­ish Research and was the Illus­tra­tions Edi­tor and Direc­tor of Archival Research for The YIVO Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jews in East­ern Europe.