[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements-- Frieda Forman, THE EXILE BOOK OF YIDDISH WOMEN WRITERS

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements

May 23, 2013

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From:  APoskanzer <aposkanzer at gmail.com> wrote:
Date: Apr 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM

THE EXILE BOOK OF YIDDISH WOMEN WRITERS
Author:  Frieda Forman

This important book, which includes various texts never before translated
into English, and most of which originally appeared in books, journals and
newspapers, is the first to emphasize the work of so many Canadian-Yiddish
women writers, like Chava Rosenfarb, Rachel Korn and Ida Maze.

The short stories, excerpts from novels and memoirs, and several personal
essays, were written at points in these women’s lives when they were
looking out to and at the world around them. They were facing a traditional
world confronting modernity: family life during a tumultuous period when
parental authority was challenged by political and social movements; sexual
awakening during a profound revolutionary period in Europe; longings for
independence, education, and
creative, artistic expression; the conflicted entry of Yiddish-speaking
women into the modern world, beyond the restrictions of traditional Jewish
life; the Holocaust and its aftermath, and adjustment after immigration.

To date, the major anthologies of Yiddish prose in translation have
concentrated on popular male writers and excluded not only fiction by women
but their memoirs and other prose writing as well. By their exclusion from
these anthologies, Yiddish women writers were denied their place in
history, and important voices were never heard. Yiddish women writers
provide the vital link to understanding Jewish experience in Europe, North
America, Israel and other parts of the world. This anthology represents a
transformation of Yiddish literature and with it a fresh understanding of
Ashkenazi and Sefardi life.


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