Goldie Morgentaler

Goldie Morgentaler was born in Montreal, Canada, the daughter of Chava Rosenfarb, a Holocaust survivor and Yiddish-language author, and her husband Dr. Henry Morgentaler. She is a professor at the University of Lethbridge, where she teaches 19th-century British and American literature as well as modern Jewish literature.

She is the primary translator into English of her mother's work in Yiddish, 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 and the Modern Language Association's Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize for Yiddish Studies in 2006. In 1992, she translated Michel Tremblay's classic French-Canadian play Les Belles-Sœurs (1965) from French into Yiddish for performance by the Yiddish Theatre of Montreal. Her translation of Chava Rosenfarb's play The Bird of the Ghetto, about the Vilna Ghetto resistance leader Isaac Wittenberg, was performed in a staged reading by Threshold Theatre of Toronto in November 2012. She is the author of Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like (1999), and has written numerous articles on Dickens and Victorian literature.