Nurit Orchan

Nurit Orchan completed her M.A. studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004 with a thesis on “Froyen Velt: Women Writing to Yiddish Periodicals in the Russian Empire 1881–1903.” She is currently working on her Ph.D. thesis, which extends the period of her research to World War I (1914) and to the Yiddish daily presses that came into existence after 1903.