Anita Norich is Collegiate Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan. She is a scholar, teacher, and translator of Yiddish literature, American Jewish literature, and literature of the Holocaust. She earned her PhD in Victorian literature from Columbia University and studied Yiddish literature at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Norich translates Yiddish propose by women, including: Kadya Molodovsky’s A Jewish Refugee in America; Chana Blankshteyn's Fear and Other Stories; and Celia Dropkin's Desires. She has also written critical studies: The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer; Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish Culture in America During the Holocaust; and Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century.