Dobrochna Fire

Translator | Editor

Work

Translations

  • “Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland” and “Great Illustrated General Encyclopedia.” Memorial Book of Hrubieshov (Hrubieszów, Poland). https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Hrubieszow/Hrubieszow.html. From Polish.
  • Roman Katsman. “David Shrayer-Petrov’s Parallel Universes.” Pending 2019. From Russian.
  • Roman Katsman. “Crisis of the Victimary Paradigm in Contemporary Russian Literature in Israel (An applied case study of Eric Gans’s Generative Anthropology).” Anthropoetics 24, no. 1 (Fall 2018). From Russian.
  • Roman Katsman. “Jewish Fearless Speech: Towards a Definition of Soviet Jewish Nonconformism (F. Gorenshtein, F. Roziner, D. Shrayer-Petrov).” East European Jewish Affairs 48, no. 1 (2018): 41–55. From Russian.
  • Roman Katsman. “The New Literary Geography: Demarginalization of Contemporary Russophone Literature in Israel.” Lecture presented at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. October 11, 2017. From Russian.
  • Edward Kopówka. The Jews in Siedlce: 1850–1945. New York: JewishGen, 2016. From Polish.
  • Szymon Zakrzewski. Yoke of the Night: Along the Trail of the Bowed. From Polish. Unpublished manuscript, forthcoming.
  • Joanna Charms. The Mysterious Letter / Таинственное письмо. From Polish into English and Russian; children’s book for WeGirls SA, Poland. Online editions, forthcoming.
  • Halina Birenbaum. Hope Is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age under Nazi Terror. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. With David Welsh and Elaine Morton.
  • Yegor Ligachev. Inside Gorbachev’s Kremlin: The Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. With Catherine A. Fitzpatrick and Michele A. Berdy.
  • “J. Harefuler: Memoir of a Jewish Youth.” In Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust, ed. Jeffrey Shandler, 344-79. New Haven, CT: Yale university Press, 2002. From Polish.
  • Lyudmila Petrushevskaya. “The Overlook.” Russian Women Writing. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
  • Galina Kornilova. “Ostrobramsky Gate.” Russian Women Writing. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
  • I. Grekova. “Masters of Their Own Lives.” Russian Women Writing. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
  • ———.  “Under the Street Lamp.” Russia According to Women. Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage Press, 1991.
  • ———. “No Smiles.” The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989.

Editing

  • culture.pl/en. June 2023-present.
  • Maxim D. Shrayer. Kinship: Poems. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2024.
  • Maxim D. Shrayer. Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023.
  • Kronos Philosophical Journal. Warsaw: Fundacja Augusta hr. Cieszkowskiego. 2019-present. https://kronos.org.pl/english/.
  • Łukasz Kozak. With Stake and Spade. Vampiric Diversity in Poland. Warsaw: Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, 2020. https://evvivalarte.org/pl/produkt/lukasz-kozak-with-stake-and-spade-vampiric-diversity-in-poland-an-introductiona-and-sourcebook/.
  • Staszów Memorial Book. Original editor Elchanan Erlich (1962). English edition edited by Jean-Pierre Stroweis, Leonard Levin, and Dobrochna Fire. Graphic layout by Rachel Freeman Levin. New York: JewishGen, 2020.
  • Maxim D. Shrayer, ed. Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature: An Anthology. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018.
  • Maxim D. Shrayer, With or Without You: The Prospect for Jews in Today’s Russia. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017.
  • Eliezer Schweid, The History of Jewish Philosophy of Religion in the Modern Period. Vol. 3, The Crisis of Humanism. A Historical Crossroads, translated and annotated by Leonard Levin. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
  • Eliezer Schweid, The History of Jewish Philosophy of Religion in the Modern Period. Vol. 2, pt. 2, The Birth of Jewish Historical Studies and the Modern Jewish Religious Movements, translated and annotated by Leonard Levin. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
  • M. E. Sharpe journals: Eastern European Economics, Russian and East European Finance and Trade, Russian Studies in Philosophy, Statutes & Decisions: The Laws of the USSR and Its Successor States.
  • Nicholas Rzhevsky. The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
  • Maxim D. Shrayer, ed. An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry. Two-volume set. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
  • Kathryn Szczepanska. Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
  • Nicholas Rzhevsky, ed. An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture, with interactive multimedia CD. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
  • Minton F. Goldman. Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Political, Economic, and Social Challenges. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997.
  • Hugh Ragsdale. The Russian Tragedy: The Burden of History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
  • Peter Maggs. The Mandelstam and Der Nister Files. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe,1995.
  • Lucjan Dobroszycki, ed. Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland. Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe, 1994.
  • Janusz Bugajski. Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: A Guide to Nationality Policies, Organizations, and Parties. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

Proofreading

  • culture.pl/en. June 2023-present.
  • Kronos Philosophical Journal. Warsaw: Fundacja Augusta hr. Cieszkowskiego. 2019-present. https://kronos.org.pl/english/.
  • Maxim D. Shrayer. Kinship: Poems. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2024.
  • Bernard Knapp. The Archaeology of Cyprus. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • Team Spirit. Thirty-book series on baseball for young readers. Chicago, IL: Norwood House Press, 2013.
  • John Ashworth. The Republic in Crisis, 1848–1861. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Sankar Muthu, ed. Empire and Modern Political Thought. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Second Nature: Changes & Challenges in the New Environment. Six-book series. Chicago, IL: Norwood House Press, 2011.
  • Sandra F. Rosengrant and Elena D. Lifschitz. Focus on Russian: An Interactive Approach to Communication, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.