Tikva Frymer-Kensky Professor Emerita of English, Professor Emerita of Judaic Studies
norich@umich.eduCenter for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; CREES Faculty Associates; Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; WCEE Faculty
Education/Degree:
B.A., Barnard College, 1973; M.A., English Literature, Columbia University, 1974; M. Ph., English Literature, Columbia University, 1976; Ph.D., English Literature, Columbia University, 1979
Highlighted Work and Publications
Under Whose Sign? Hebraism and Yiddishism as Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History
Anita Norich
Name of Periodical: PMLA
Year of Publication: 2010
Institute Theme Year: 2010-2011
Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century
Anita Norich
Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these canonical texts, and she argues that these works and their translations form an enlightening conversation about Jewish history and identity....
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Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext
Anita Norich
These essays examine the ways in which Jewish culture has existed in a mutually enriching, if sometimes problematic, relationship with surrounding non-Jewish cultures. Leading scholars in Judaic studies take up broad methodological concerns and specific case studies illustrating Jewish embeddedness in other cultures and re-examining the famous textuality of the Jews, expanding the notion of text to include other works of art, both material and spiritual.
Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies Series
Year of Publication: 2008
Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish Culture in America During the Holocaust
Anita Norich
Discovering Exile analyzes American Yiddish culture and its development during the European Holocaust and shows how our understanding of American Jewish culture has been utterly distorted by the omission of this context. It explores responses to some of the most intense cultural controversies of the period, examining texts in various genres written by the most important Yiddish writers and critics and placing them at the center of discussions of literary modernism and cultural modernity. Anglo-Jewish writers of the period provide a counterpoint to and commentary on this Yiddish...
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Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century
Anita Norich
Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these canonical texts, and she argues that these works and their translations form an enlightening conversation about Jewish history and identity.
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