Rose Waldman

Rose Waldman is a native Yiddish speaker, born and raised in the Satmar Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University. She is an Assistant Professor of Writing at NYU and has taught Translation Theory at Columbia University. Her translated works include Married by I. L. Peretz (2013), Pioneers: The First Breach by S. An-sky (2017), and the forthcoming Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade (2022-2023). She has been awarded fellowships for translation by the National Endowment for the Arts and twice by the Yiddish Book Center.