Yiddish Book Center
- New York, Philadelphia, Poland, Reyzl Fenster, Stories, Sun on the Mountain, Women's History Month, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers, זון אױף בּאַרג, רײזל גלאַס-פֿענסטער
Hidden in the Community (Women’s History Day Twelve)
For someone who wrote many articles and published widely, Reyzl Glas-Fenster is not easy to find in a search, nor is her work readily accessible from the usual Yiddish troves. After her name…
- 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,…
- Belarus, Canada, Chaya Zhukovsky, Den Mother, Ida Maze, Montreal, Women's History Month, Yiddish, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Culture, Yiddish Salon, Yiddish Women Writers, אײַדע מאַזע
Yiddish Montreal’s “Den Mother” (Women’s History Day Ten)
Leaving as refugees of the pogroms from Belarus, Ida Maze (then Chaya Zhukovsky) fled first to New York, then to Montreal with her family (parents and one of her six siblings) as a…
- 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…
- 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…