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She is included in Zalmen Reisen's biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers, having previously been included in Ezra Kerman's anthology of Yiddish female poets. [1] Dovid Katz, who includes her among a group of women he says "built Yiddish poetry in the west," identifies her as having died in New York in 1987 (where, according to Fuerstenberg ...
Rajzel Żychlińsky (July 27, 1910 – June 13, 2001) was a Polish-born writer of poetry in Yiddish.She published seven collections over six decades. Her first two collections were published in Warsaw, Poland in 1936 and 1939, just prior to World War II.
Poets who wrote, or write, much or all of their poetry in the Yiddish language include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Kathryn Ann Hellerstein (Yiddish: קאַטרין העלערשטײן; born 1952) is an American academic and scholar of Yiddish-language poetry, translation, and Jewish American literature. Specializing in Yiddish, she is currently a professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program at ...
Most of her poetry was written there. [2] Margolin was associated with both the Di Yunge and ‘introspectivist’ groups in the Yiddish poetry scene at the time, but her poetry is uniquely her own. [3] In her early years in New York City Margolin joined the editorial staff of the liberal Yiddish daily Der Tog (The Day; founded 1914). Under her ...
Kadia Molodowsky (Yiddish: קאַדיע מאָלאָדאָװסקי; also: Kadya Molodowsky; May 10, 1894, in Bereza Kartuska, now Byaroza, Belarus – March 23, 1975, in Philadelphia) was a Polish-American poet and writer in the Yiddish language, and a teacher of Yiddish and Hebrew. She published six collections of poetry during her lifetime ...
Rachel (Rokhl) Häring Korn (Yiddish: רחל קאָרן, 15 January 1898 – 9 September 1982) was a Polish-born Canadian Yiddish language poet and author. In total, she published eight collections of poetry and two of prose. Seymour Mayne characterized her in 1985, three years after her death, as "the first major woman poet in Canadian ...
Yoel Matveyev (יואל מאַטוועיעוו), born in 1976, is a Yiddish, English and Russian poet, writer and journalist from Leningrad, USSR with background in computer programming. [1] He taught himself Yiddish at high school age and started writing Yiddish poetry as a teenager.