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Betsy
Rosenberg

Betsy Rosenberg is a translator of Hebrew prose and poetry, and editor of literary and scholarly works. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spent her formative years in Haifa, Israel, Dayton, Ohio, and Michigan City, Indiana and has lived in Jerusalem since 1967. Rosenberg attended Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut and continued her studies in musicology, literature, comparative linguistics and Classical Greek at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Rubin Academy of Music.
Betsy Rosenberg is a translator of Hebrew prose and poetry, and editor of literary and scholarly works. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spent her formative years in Haifa, Israel, Dayton, Ohio, and Michigan City, Indiana and has lived in Jerusalem since 1967. Rosenberg attended Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut and continued her studies in musicology, literature, comparative linguistics and Classical Greek at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Rubin Academy of Music.
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