“I am still there”: The Recreation of Jewish Poland in the Canadian Novels of Chava Rosenfarb

Goldie Morgentaler is professor of English at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. She is the author of Dickens and Heredity: When like Begets Like (2000) and numerous articles on Dickens and Victorian Literature. She is also the translator from Yiddish to English of much of Chava Rosenfarb’s work, including The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto, Survivors: Seven Short Stories, and the play The Bird of the Ghetto. Her translations have won the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in 2005 and the Modern Language Association’s Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies in 2006. She has also translated Michel Tremblay’s classic French-Canadian play Les Belles-Soeurs from French into Yiddish and is the editor of Rosenfarb’s book of poetry in English translation, Exile at Last: Selected Poems of Chava Rosenfarb (2013).