Poetry
- 5782, Aaron, Chukat, Community, Death, Eleazar, Journey, Midbar, Miracles, Miriam, Moses, Parsha, Poetry, Priests, Punishment, Purity, Red Heifer, Sacrifice, Seraphim, Songs
Fierce: Consequences, Journeying, Whining, Song
Three chapters pack in a lot of action this week in Parashat Chukat. When I first read the text and was pondering what stuck out to me this year, I realized that the…
- British Mandate, Columbia University, Holocaust, Israel, Kibbutz, Poetry, Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, Soviet Yiddish Writers, Vilna Ghetto, Yiddish, Yiddish Women Writers, Yung Yisroel
L’Dor V’Dor – Carrying on Poetry from a Woman’s Perspective (Women’s History Day Nine)
Growing up on Kadya Molodowsky, did Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim know she’d also become a famous writer? Would Rivka’s career have started as early, or been as a poet, without the Holocaust? Who knows…
- 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…
- 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…
- Holocaust, Immigration, New York, Paris, Poetry, Poland, Rajzel Żychlińsky, Refugee, Warsaw, Women's History Month, Yiddish Women Writers, רײזל זשיכקינסקי
Topsy-Turvey Refugee (Women’s History Day Three)
During my January intensive Yiddish course, my teacher offered us the opportunity to introduce a poet to the class (auf Yiddish, nu!). Never having heard of Rajzel Żychlińsky before, I found myself meeting a…
- Belarus, Fiction, Forverts, Immigration, Israel, Kadya Molodowsky, Mameloshn, Poetry, Tel Aviv, Women's History Month, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers, YIVO, קאַדיע מאָלאָדאָװסקי
Immigrant, Multiplied (Women’s History Day Two)
My friends know that I’m not someone who regularly listens to podcasts – until my harbour walks during the pandemic led me to find a new friend, and a way to learn much…
- Bainbridge, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Bronx, Mameloshn, Mosholu, Pakn Treger, Poetry, Songs, Women's History Month, Yiddish, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers, YIVO
Mosholu’s Finest (Women’s History Day One)
In a new series on my akademishe blog: Women’s History Month, March MMXXI. After a year (plus a bisl mer) of Yiddish study, I want to introduce you to some of my favorite…