Jerrold Landau is a freelance translator of Yizkor books (Memorial Books of destroyed Jewish communities published by the landsmanschaft organizations after the Second World War) from their original Hebrew and Yiddish into English under the auspices of the JewishGen organization. Jerrold’s translations, published on the JewishGen website, open up to the English speaking public the rich vista of pre-war shtetl life, personalized Holocaust testimonies by survivors, detailed necrologies, ancient town histories and other fascinating material included in these books. Towns whose books Jerrold has translated over his ten year translation career include among others: Rzeszow, Sochaczew, Stawiski, Debica, Ivano-Frankivk, Przemysl, Zuromin, Orhei, Podhajce, Roznyatow, Lizhensk and Zgierz.
Jerrold lives in Toronto with his wife and four children. By day, Jerrold is a software test and translation specialist at IBM. He works on his translations on a part-time basis during the evenings.
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