Anita Norich is Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor Emerita of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the translator of Desires by Tsilye Dropkin (forthcoming, 2024), Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn (2022), and A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodovsky (2019). She is also the author of Writing in Tongues: Yiddish Translation in the 20th Century (2013), Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Literature in America During the Holocaust (2007), The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (1991); and co-editor of Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, 2016), Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext, (2008), and Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures (1992).
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Anita Norich
University of Michigan
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Texts & Translation
מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער און...נבואה
Girls, Women, Ladies and... Prophecy
Kadya Molodovsky
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Kadya Molodowsky’s response to Melech Ravitsh’s article about women writers.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער—ייִדישע דיכטערינס
Girls, Women, Ladies–Yiddish Poetesses
Melekh Ravitch
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Melech Ravitsh’s “Meydelkh, froyen, vayber—yidishe dikhterins.”
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַ פּאָר שעה אין פֿרױען־װעלט
A Few Hours in Women’s World
Chana Blankshteyn
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s repotage on Sore Reyzn’s speech in the Women’s Union in March 1927.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
צו מײַן ברודער אַבֿרהם רײַזען
To My Brother Avrom Reisen
Sarah Reisen
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Sarah Reisen’s poem to her brother, Avrom.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
„מײַן טאַטע פֿאַרברענט מײַנע לידער“ און „דער שרײַבער־באַל...“
“My Father Burns My Poems” and “The Writer’s Ball”
Malka Lee
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
Translations of excerpts from Malka Lee’s memoir, Durkh kindershe oygn.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
װײַבעריקום טאַלאַנטיקום אײַנלײַטיגונגס
Womanistic Talentistic Introductionarium
Froym-Leyb Volfson
Translation by David Mazower, Anita Norich and Faith Jones
A translation of Froym-Leyb Volfson’s satirical poem about women writers.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַן אָפֿענער בריװ צו יענטע סערדאַצקי
An Open Letter to Yente Serdatsky
Chaim Gutman
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Der lebediker’s satirical letter to Yente Serdatsky.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
פֿראַדל שטאָק
Fradl Shtok
Rokhl Auerbach
Translation by Anita Norich, David Mazower and Faith Jones
A translation of Rokhl Auerbach’s review of Fradl Shtok’s short story collection.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַ קוש
A Kiss
Celia Dropkin
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Celia Dropkin’s “A kush.”
Nov 19, 2023
Blog
Translating and Teaching Yiddish Prose by Women
Anita Norich
It is time to stop lamenting the paucity of available Yiddish prose works by women and, instead, to translate more and to use the wealth of material that is already available.
Apr 02, 2020
Texts & Translation
שרעק
Fear
Chana Blankshteyn
Translation by Anita Norich
A Short story from author, editor and activist Chana Blankshteyn.
Mar 30, 2020
Blog
Embracing Ambiguity: Reflections on Translating Yiddish
Anita Norich
Professor Anita Norich concludes our series of reflections on Translating Yiddish in the twenty-first century by reconsidering our relationship to ambiguity in translation.
May 12, 2016