Overview

Taking stock of Yiddish literature in 1939, critic Shmuel Niger highlighted the increasing number and importance of women writers. However, awareness of women Yiddish writers diminished over the years. Today, a modest body of novels, short stories, poems and essays by Yiddish women may be found in English translation online and in print, and little in the way of literary history and criticism is available. This collection of critical essays is the first dedicated to the works of Yiddish women writers, introducing them to a new audience of English-speaking scholars and readers.

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Author:   Rosemary Horowitz
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9780786468812

ISBN 10:   0786468815
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   08 May 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface by Rosemary Horowitz Lost and Found: Yiddish Women Writers (Irena Klepfisz) A Review of Yiddish Women Writers in English-Language Anthologies (Rosemary Horowitz) Still Waiting for Tomorrow: Lily Bes and Her Contemporaries in the 1920s (Hinde Ena Burstin) The Red Flower: Rebellion and Guilt in the Poetry of Celia Dropkin (Sheva Zucker) Borrowed Shoes: Shira Gorshman’s Politics of Literature (Faith Jones) From Diamond Cutters to Dog Races: Antwerp and London in the Work of Esther Kreitman (Dafna Clifford) To Dive into the Self: The Svive of Blume Lempel (Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub) “Of all the men I am the most manly”: Aspects of Gender in the Poetry of Khane Levin (Joanna Lisek) The Iron Rod of Desire: Imagism and Modernism in Anna Margolin’s Drunk from the Bitter Truth (Paula Hayes) Forgotten Playwright: Kadya Molodowsky and the Yiddish Theater (Debra Caplan) Gender and Nation in the 1945 Poems of Kadya Molodowsky and Malka Heifetz Tussman (Kathryn Hellerstein) Gendered Experience in Chava Rosenfarb’s The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Łódź Ghetto (Julie Spergel) The Earth Hurts Me: On the Poetry of Hadasa Rubin (Magdalena Ruta) Remembering Two of Montreal’s Yiddish Women Poets: Esther Segal and Ida Maza (Rebecca Margolis) Rajzel Zychlinski’s Poetical Trajectories in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Elvira Groezinger) Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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The late Rosemary Horowitz was a professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She published extensively on Jewish topics.

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