Lasha Shakulashvili is a Georgian scholar of Jewish/Yiddish Studies. Raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, and although not Jewish, he has deep connections with the Jewish communities of the South Caucasus region. He is the first lecturer to teach Yiddish at the university level in the region. Moreover, he also teaches the Jewish heritage of Georgia and Armenia internationally, through various academic and non-academic institutions. Besides his native Georgian, he speaks, reads, and writes in English, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Latvian.