Galicia
- 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,…
- Anthologies, California, Di Yunge, Fradl Shtok, Frances Zinn, Galicia, Genealogy, New York, Poetry, Sonnets, Stories, Women's History Month, Yiddish, Yiddish Women Writers
Yiddish Sonnet-ing (Women’s History Day Eight)
Coming over in the wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the first decade of the 1900s, Fradl Shtok left Galicia and found herself in New York City as a young woman. Having…