Saul Noam Zaritt is an associate professor of Yiddish Literature at Harvard University. He is currently a peer review editor at In geveb and one of the site's founding editors. His academic work appears in Prooftexts, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and American Literary History. His book, Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody, was published in 2020 with Oxford University Press. He has held fellowships from the University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis, the YIVO Institute, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He completed his doctoral studies in Jewish Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary and has an MA in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew University.
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