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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.
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
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