Warsaw
- Emanuel Ringelblum, Holocaust, Israel, Lviv, Oyneg Shabes, Poland, Soup Kitchen, Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Women's History Month, Yad Vashem, Yiddish Women Writers, YIVO, Yizkor, Zionist, רחל אוירבך
Witnessing & Witnesses (Women’s History Day Five)
Carrying the weight of cultural remnants from the time before and during the Shoah, Rokhl Oyerbakh was one of three members of the oyneg shabes who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Before the…
- 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…