Women in Yiddish Literature
Recent Programs • 1h 2m
Where are all the women in Yiddish literature? Anita Norich, well-known scholar and translator of Yiddish literature discusses the role of women writers in Yiddish: what and how they wrote, why we know more about their poetry than their novels, and why there has been a renewal of interest in them. She also discusses the importance of translating these works, and how modern translation has led to a renaissance and rediscovery of some forgotten--or suppressed--treasures.
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