Nurit Orchan completed her M.A. in 2004 and in her PhD in 2008 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the guidance of Professor Chava Turniansky. Orchan’s first book, Yotzot me'arba Amot: Nashim Cotvot Ba'Itonut Be'Yiddish Ba'Imperia HaRussit (Staking a Claim: Women Writing in the Yiddish Press in Tsarist Russia), was published in 2013. Her second book, Omdot Ba'Nisayon: Raishit Siporet Hanashim Hamodernit Be'yiddish (Holding Their Own: The Beginning of Modern Fiction Written by Women), published in 2021, is an anthology of short stories she collected and edited and that she translated to Hebrew with Yehudit Levin and Chava Farstay. Among her articles are "Shtetl Metropolis and In Between," in From the Shtetl to the Metropolis, (Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium 6, 2012) and “The representation of Man in Stories Written by Women in the Yiddish press in Tsarist Russia" (Hebrew), published in Massechet12 , 2016. Nurit Orchan is an independent scholar. She writes articles and gives lectures in academic and non- academic institutions.