Saul Noam Zaritt is an assistant professor of Yiddish Language and Ashkenazic Culture at The Ohio State University. He holds a BA in comparative literature from the University of Chicago, MA in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a PhD in Jewish Literature from The Jewish Theological Seminary of New York. Zaritt’s work tracks how Yiddish literature moves between cultures and across global literary networks, and more broadly, how “Jewish” texts respond to modern demands for legibility and translatability. His work also brings digital humanities tools to bear on literary study. In 2023, he launched Shund.org, a database of Yiddish popular fiction dedicated to collecting and analyzing works of entertainment literature written in Yiddish and serialized in the Yiddish press. Zaritt is the author of Jewish American Writing and World literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody (Oxford, 2020) and A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Fordham, 2024). He has received fellowships and awards including the Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellowship and a fellowship from the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is a founding editor of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. He has held previous teaching positions at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis.