[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Annoucement--Yiddish women authors of the 20th century
Victor Bers
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Mon Dec 8 21:02:09 EST 2014
Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements
Dec. 8, 2014
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From: frieda.forman at utoronto.ca
Their Stories, Our Stories: Yiddish Women Writers
Discover the rarely explored works and lives of Yiddish women authors of
the 20th century. Rescued from oblivion by feminist scholars and
translators, these short stories, memoirs and novel extracts will bring to
light our foremothers’ experience and history in Eastern Europe, North
America, and Israel. Recurring themes include family and gender relations,
work, education, political life, migration and the Holocaust. Texts will be
available in translation and in the original Yiddish.
Frieda Forman has been a teacher, writer and scholar in the fields of
Jewish Studies and Women’s Studies for over four decades. She was the
founder and coordinator of the Women’s Educational Resources Centre at
OISE/ University of Toronto, where she is currently an associate She was
the researcher, co- editor, and a translator of Found Treasures: Stories by
Yiddish Women Writers, the first collection of Yiddish women’s literature
in translation. More recently, she edited The Exile Book of Yiddish Women
Writers.
Details at this URL: http://www.meetup.com/N
<http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Yiddish-Women-Writers-Meetup-reading-translating/>
ew-York-Yiddish-Women-Writers-Meetup-reading-translating/
<http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Yiddish-Women-Writers-Meetup-reading-translating/>
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