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Women writers of Yiddish literature : critical essays / edited by Rosemary Horowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yiddish literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Yiddish literature.
- Women authors, Yiddish--Biography.
- Women authors, Yiddish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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:
- Cover; 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)
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Women writers of Yiddish literature : critical essays.
- ISBN:
- 0-7864-6881-5
- 1-4766-1990-5
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