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Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. [113] Several of her works had illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Her most famous work was Morning Has Broken, a Christian hymn first published in 1931.
Joshua Braff, novelist [17] Abraham Cahan, journalist, author and editor of Yiddish newspaper Jewish Daily Forward[18][19] Hortense Calisher, novelist and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters [20] Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, colonial era rabbi who published the first Jewish sermons in America [21] Melvin Jules Bukiet ...
Ophira Eisenberg. Barbara Elefant-Raiskin. Blossom Elfman. Ruth Elias. (previous page) (next page) Categories: Jewish women by occupation. Jewish writers. Women writers by ethnicity.
Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
Aurora Levins Morales, poet, and Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board member [22] Howard Nemerov, poet [23] Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar [24] Charles Reznikoff, poet [25] Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist [26] Morris Rosenfeld, poet [27] Jerome Rothenberg, poet, anthologist, essayist [28] Muriel Rukeyser, poet [29] Delmore Schwartz, poet and ...
Leah Goldberg. Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg[1] (Hebrew: לאה גולדברג; May 29, 1911, Königsberg – January 15, 1970, Jerusalem) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, illustrater and painter, [2][3] and comparative literary researcher. Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature.
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by sincere wonderment and profound connection with the environment, conveyed in ...
Jewish culture. Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It encompasses traditions of writing in English, primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish. While critics and authors generally acknowledge the notion of a distinctive corpus and practice ...