Women writers of Yiddish literature : critical essays / edited by Rosemary Horowitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horowitz, Rosemary, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yiddish literature--Women authors--History and criticsm.

Yiddish literature.

Women authors, Yiddish--Biography.

Women authors, Yiddish.

Women authors.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 313 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

"Today, 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lost and Found: Yiddish Women Writers / Irena Klepfisz Klepfisz, Irena 5

A Review of Yiddish Women Writers in English-Language Anthologies / Rosemary Horowitz Horowitz, Rosemary 11

Still Waiting for Tomorrow: Lily Bes and Her Contemporaries in the 1920s / Hinde Ena Burstin Burstin, Hinde Ena 26

The Red Flower: Rebellion and Guilt in the Poetry of Celia Dropkin / Sheva Zucker Zucker, Sheva 51

Borrowed Shoes: Shira Gorshman's Politics of Literature / Faith Jones Jones, Faith 70

From Diamond Cutters to Dog Races: Antwerp and London in the Work of Esther Kreitman / Dafna Clifford Clifford, Dafna 88

To Dive into the Self: The Svive of Blume Lempel / Ellen Cassedy Cassedy, Ellen, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron 103

"Of all the men I am the most manly": Aspects of Gender in the Poetry of Khane Levin / Joanna Lisek Lisek, Joanna 126

The Iron Rod of Desire: Imagism and Modernism in Anna Margolin's Drunk from the Bitter Truth / Paula Hayes Hayes, Paula 157

Forgotten Playwright: Kadya Molodowsky and the Yiddish Theater / Debra Caplan Caplan, Debra 180

Gender and Nation in the 1945 Poems of Kadya Molodowsky and Malka Heifetz Tussman / Kathryn Hellerstein Hellerstein, Kathryn 195

Gendered Experience in Chava Rosenfarb's The Tret' of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto / Julie Spergel Spergel, Julie 208

The Earth Hurts Me: On the Poetry of Hadasa Rubin / Magdalena Ruta Ruta, Magdalena 230

Remembering Two of Montreal's Yiddish Women Poets: Esther Segal and Ida Maza / Rebecca Margolis Margolis, Rebecca 248

Rajzel Zychlinski's Poetical Trajectories in the Shadow of the Holocaust / Elvira Groezinger Groezinger, Elvira 270.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786468812

0786468815

OCLC:

898167607