Dr. Dan Virag, born in Budapest, arrived in Canada with his family at the age of five and was educated in Jewish schools in Montreal, where he gained proficiency in English, French, and Hebrew. After completing his undergraduate studies in English literature and history at McGill University in 2006, he gained international experience as an English teacher in Fukui, Japan, acquiring basic knowledge of Japanese language and life in a foreign culture. In 2008, Dr. Virag moved to Berkeley to pursue advanced degrees in the history of the Jewish people at the University of California, Berkeley, while also studying German in Berlin and conducting extensive archival research in Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Rome, Zurich, and New York. This allowed him to become acquainted with basic Yiddish during the writing of his doctoral dissertation on the cultural history of Budapest Jewry in the 19th century. Since 2015, Dr. Virag has been teaching English in Vancouver to Chinese and French immigrant communities, after completing a bachelor's degree in education, while devoting himself to community activities through lectures on Jewish history and providing guidance to immigrant children. Simultaneously, he expresses his creative tendencies through the publication of poetry books in English and French and the writing of original poetry in both languages. Dr. Virag regularly teaches Jewish history at the synagogue where he prays and volunteers at the JCC.