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Scribblers on the Roof: Anita Norich, Desires
Mon, June 24 at 8:00 pm
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Join us at our popular literary program to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work, all on our breezy and beautiful rooftop space. Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase.
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This Week:
Anita Norich
Desires (translator)
Yiddish-literature scholar and translator ANITA NORICH on her translation of Desires by modernist poet Celia Dropkin and on the works of Israel Joshua Singer, “one of the few genuine novelists to write in Yiddish,” according to Irving Howe. Norich is a professor emerita of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
In conversation with Judith Shulevitz.
