Ellen Cassedy

Ellen Cassedy is a founder of 9 to 5, the movement of working women; author of a book about Holocaust history; and a translator from Yiddish.

"Working 9 to 5" is her first-person account of taking on the corporate titans, organizing a union, winning victories from coast to coast, & inspiring Jane Fonda’s movie & Dolly Parton’s anthem.

"We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust" tells of her journey to connect with her Jewish family roots and her wider quest for a more tolerant future.

"Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel" (translated from Yiddish with Yermiyahu Ahron Taub) blends realistic & fantastic, lyrical & philosophical.

"On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash" makes a major contribution to the literature of immigration & resilience.

"So We Died:A Memoir of Life & Death in the Ghetto of Siauliai, Lithuania, by Levi Shalit" (co-translated with Veronica Belling

& Andrew Cassel) is a searing account of Holocaust experience.