Goldie Morgentaler
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Goldie Morgentaler is a Canadian
translator from and to Yiddish. Morgentaler translated from Yiddish to English several books of her mother Chava Rosenfarb
. With French-English-Yiddish-language translator , she also translated the French-Canadian play Les Belles-sœurs (1965) into Yiddish as Di Shvegerius (1992).
, with activist physician Henry Morgentaler
. She is professor of English at the University of Lethbridge
, where she teaches nineteenth-century British and American literature, as well as Modern Jewish literature. She has published numerous translations from Yiddish to English, including several stories by I. L. Peretz. Morgentaler is the translator of much of her mother's work, including The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto and Survivors: Seven Short Stories, for which she won the 2005 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award. She is the author of Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like (1999).
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
translator from and to Yiddish. Morgentaler translated from Yiddish to English several books of her mother Chava Rosenfarb
Chava Rosenfarb
Chava Rosenfarb was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War II Yiddish Literature. Rosenfarb began writing poetry as young as eight...
. With French-English-Yiddish-language translator , she also translated the French-Canadian play Les Belles-sœurs (1965) into Yiddish as Di Shvegerius (1992).
Biography
Morgentaler is the daughter of Holocaust survivor and Yiddish-language author Chava RosenfarbChava Rosenfarb
Chava Rosenfarb was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War II Yiddish Literature. Rosenfarb began writing poetry as young as eight...
, with activist physician Henry Morgentaler
Henry Morgentaler
Henry Morgentaler, CM is a Canadian physician and prominent pro-choice advocate who has fought numerous legal battles for that cause.-Early life:...
. She is professor of English at the University of Lethbridge
University of Lethbridge
The University of Lethbridge is a publicly-funded comprehensive academic and research university, founded in the liberal education tradition, located in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with two other urban campuses in Calgary and Edmonton. The main building sits among the coulees on the west side of...
, where she teaches nineteenth-century British and American literature, as well as Modern Jewish literature. She has published numerous translations from Yiddish to English, including several stories by I. L. Peretz. Morgentaler is the translator of much of her mother's work, including The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto and Survivors: Seven Short Stories, for which she won the 2005 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award. She is the author of Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like (1999).