Golda Werman was born in Germany, grew up in the United States and now lives in Israel. She is a Milton scholar (author of Milton and Midrash, Catholic University of America Press, 1995) as well as a translator of Yiddish literature. Among her many Yiddish translations are The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Anski (Schocken, 1992), The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia (Syracuse University Press, 1996) and Strange Ways by Rokhl Faygenberg (Gefen, 2007).