Goldie Morgentaler is Professor Emerita at the University of Lethbridge. Her translations of Chava Rosenfarb’s work into English have won several awards including, most recently, the 2019 Canadian Jewish Literary Award and the 2020 Segal Prize for the collection of Rosenfarb’s essays called Confessions of a Yiddish Writer. A complete edition of Rosenfarb’s short stories will be published in her English translation by White Goat Press in 2022.
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Goldie Morgentaler reflects on why her mother, the novelist Chava Rosenfarb, might have chosen to translate the work of two other Jewish Canadian women writers — her friends Miriam Waddington and Adele Wiseman, who both wrote in English — into Yiddish.
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Newly-discovered Yiddish translations by Chava Rosenfarb of two Jewish-Canadian authors.
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