Anita Norich in conversation with Lisa Newman

Join Anita Norich at the Yiddish Book Center for a conversation about her recently released translation of Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin’s Desires (White Goat Press). In Desires, as in much of her work, Dropkin reflects on the complexities of love, eroticism, and domesticity. Through characters carefully drawn from her own immigrant experience, Dropkin addresses the yearnings of both the body and mind, the tension between excitement and security, and the conflicting impulses that are part of the human condition. 

Anita Norich will be in conversation with Lisa Newman, the Yiddish Book Center’s Director of Publishing and Public Programs. Following their conversation there will be a Q&A and a book signing.  

About the speaker: 

Anita Norich is Collegiate Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan. She is a scholar and translator of Yiddish literature who has written and taught about American Jewish and Yiddish literature and literature of the Holocaust. She earned her Ph.D. 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. 

Anita is an alumna of the Yiddish Book Center’s Translation Fellowship. In addition to her translation of Celia Dropkin’s Desires (White Goat Press), she published translations of Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn and A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodovsky. Other books by Anita include 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. She is also co-editor of Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature; Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext; and Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives.