Dobrochna Fire

“Dosia Fire is a translator of that rare kind, who perfectly knows how to make difficult decisions without contorting an author’s intention. Working with Dosia is for me the desired experience of simply reading myself in another language, being wisely and gently adopted into a new warm family of words and images. With her kind assistance, my Russian texts have found their new and newly colored life.”

–Roman Katsman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

“I owe a debt of gratitude to my copy editor, Dobrochna Fire, for her patience and care in going over my translation draft multiple times to identify passages needing further clarification and helping to achieve consistency of style. Her questions for clarification inspired me to provide explanatory notes that should be enlightening to the general reader of this work. Her extensive background of knowledge in general east-European intellectual history also provided occasion for exchanges that I hope yielded benefit to the advantage this book will provide to readers in this area.” [The History of Jewish Philosophy, p. 7]

–Leonard Levin, Assistant Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

“Dosia Fire is one of the very best editors I have ever worked with. She has a superb sense of language and style, and her multilingualism is a boon, as is also her very strong background in Slavic, East European, and Jewish history and culture. Without Dosia Fire’s contribution, my two-volume Anthology of Jewish- Russian Literature would not have been the same. I give her my enthusiastic endorsement.”

“The copyeditor, Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman Fire, herself an accomplished translator, has done a superb job, and I very much appreciate her linguistic acumen, her commitment to this large and complex project, and also her graceful and tactful resistance to my authorial folly.” [An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature, p. xiv]

“Dobrochna Fire copyedited the manuscript with her impeccable sense of structure and with tolerance of the author’s stylistic follies.” [Immigrant Baggage]

–Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College, 2012 Guggenheim Fellow

“I was deeply impressed by Dosia Fire’s complete command of the Polish language and her extensive knowledge of Polish literature and history as demonstrated in her translation of Edward Kopówka’s Jews in Siedlce: 1850–1945. Thanks to these abilities of Dosia’s, the author and the publisher not only received an excellent English translation of the text but also an edition enriched by her numerous notes illuminating various language and cultural facets of the time and place.”

-Michael Halber, Member of the Editorial Team, Jewish Genealogical Society

“I am grateful to . . . copy editor Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman [Fire] for her sharp eye and mind.” [Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide, p. vii]