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An against-all-odds tale of a girl who acquires education in a society that doesn't value her for her mind, and who finds ways to imagine hope in circumstances of despair.-- ""Jessica Kirzane, translator of Diary of a Lonely Girl"" The novel conveys the complexity of shtetl life with all its religious and folk traditions, personalities, class divisions, pettiness, and generosity.-- ""Rachel Mines, translator of A Plague of Cholera and Other Stories""

""An against-all-odds tale of a girl who acquires education in a society that doesn’t value her for her mind, and who finds ways to imagine hope in circumstances of despair."" —Jessica Kirzane, translator of Diary of a Lonely Girl ""The novel conveys the complexity of shtetl life with all its religious and folk traditions, personalities, class divisions, pettiness, and generosity."" —Rachel Mines, translator of A Plague of Cholera and Other Stories

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Rokhl Feygenberg (1885–1972) was born in the shtetl of Lyuban, Minsk Guberniya. Orphaned at fifteen, she lived in various cities throughout Europe and Israel before settling permanently in Tel Aviv in 1933. Among the earliest women professional authors published in the Yiddish press, Feygenberg went on to write novels, plays, essays, and a significant body of journalism in Yiddish and Hebrew. Feygenberg’s 1926 book about the Dubova pogroms was instrumental in the defense and acquittal of Shalom Schwarzbard. Tamara T. Helfer was a 2023 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow. She is a former research astronomer, science educator, and program developer with broad interests in the intersection of history, genealogy, and storytelling.

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