Ellen Cassedy

Ellen Cassedy is a co-founder of 9 to 5, the movement of working women; the

author of a book about reckoning with Holocaust history; and a translator from

Yiddish.

Ellen Cassedy was a founder of 9 to 5, the movement of working women that

mobilized for rights and respect on the job. "Working 9 to 5" is her

first-person account of how a diverse group of women took on the corporate

titans, organized a union, won victories from coast to coast – and inspired

Jane

Fonda’s hit movie and Dolly Parton’s enduring anthem.

In "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust," Ellen embarks on a

journey to connect with her Jewish family roots that expands into a wider

quest,

offering hope for a more tolerant future. Winner of the Grub Street National

Book Prize for Nonfiction, shortlisted for the William Saroyan International

Prize for Writing.

Ellen Cassedy is a translator from Yiddish. "Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other

Stories by Blume Lempel" (with Yermiyahu Ahron Taub) blends the realistic and

the fantastic, the lyrical and the philosophical. Winner of the Leviant

Memorial

Prize from the Modern Language Association. "On the Landing: Stories by Yenta

Mash" traces an arc across upheavals and regime changes, making a major

contribution to the literature of immigration and resilience. "So We Died:

A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, by Levi Shalit (co-translated with Veronica Belling and Andrew Cassel) is a searing account of Holocaust experience.