Saul Noam Zaritt is an assistant professor in Yiddish language and Ashkenazic culture at The Ohio State University.

He studies modern Jewish writing and the politics of translation, examining how writers cross and inhabit boundaries between cultures. With a focus on Yiddish literature of the twentieth century, Saul’s research tracks how texts labeled as “Jewish”—by the writers themselves or by critics and institutions—respond to the modern demand for legibility and translatability.

Saul’s research has been supported by fellowships at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University, and the American Academy in Berlin (where he is a Fall 2025 Charles Haimoff fellow).

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