Chava Rosenfarb
- Blume Lempel, Brooklyn, Chava Rosenfarb, Galicia, Holocaust, Long Island, New York, Paris, Reyzl Fenster, Women's History Month, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers, בלומע לעמפּעל
Exploring Yiddish Secrets (Women’s History Day Eleven)
Today, there are lots of conversations (at least among the Yiddish-indulging) about the secret (or oft-ignored) lives of Yiddish women, particularly their thoughts and desires. Translators, learners, teachers, readers, descendants of Yiddish speakers,…
- Canada, Chava Rosenfarb, Goldie Morgentaler, I.L. Peretz, Jewish Literature, Translator, Wexler Oral History Project, Women's History Month, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers
Like Mother, Like Daughter (Women’s History Day Seven)
In perhaps the easiest connection I’ll find this month, I want to give credit to Chava Rosenfarb’s daughter, Goldie Morgentaler. She translated her mother’s work, the work of other Yiddish writers including I.L.…
- Alberta, Canada, Chava Rosenfarb, Holocaust, Łódź Ghetto, Novels, Poetry, Poland, Women's History Month, Yiddish, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers, חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב
Yiddishizing in Translation for a New World (Women’s History Day Six)
Her writing career began at eight years old with poems – but that was not when Chava Rosenfarb became known as an important post-WWII Yiddish writer, of course. First, she had to survive…