An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry Bilingual Edition

Ruth Whitman is a lecturer at the Radcliffe College Seminars. She is the author of eight books of her own poetry, including Hatshepsut, Speak to Me, Laughing Gas: Poems New and Selected 1963-1990, and The Testing of Hanna Senesh. Her awards and honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, and a Writer-in-Residence Fellowship to Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has received the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Kovner Book Award from the Jewish Book Council of America, the Nathan Chanin Award for Translation, as well as grants from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and three residencies at Mishkenot Sh'ananim in Jerusalem, in addition to residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo She was invited to Israel in 1974 as a guest of the Israeli government.