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Women writers of Yiddish literature : critical essays / edited by Rosemary Horowitz.
- Title
- Women writers of Yiddish literature : critical essays / edited by Rosemary Horowitz.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Horowitz, Rosemary
- Description
- vi, 313 pages; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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, 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 Tret' of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz 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.
- ISBN
- 9780786468812
- 0786468815
- 9781476619903 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015005873
- OCLC
- 898167607
- SCSB-12727750
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library