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Presenting a comprehensive collection of influential Yiddish women writers with new translations, this anthology explores the major transformations and upheavals of the 20th century. Short stories, excerpts, and personal essays are included from 13 writers, and focus on such subjects as family life; sexual awakening; longings for independence, education, and creative expression; the life in Europe surrounding the Holocaust and its aftermath; immigration; and the conflicted entry of Jewish women into the modern world with the restrictions of traditional life and roles. These powerful accounts provide a vital link to understanding the Jewish experience at a time of conflict and tumultuous change.

The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers: An Anthology of Stories That Looks to the Past So We Might See the Future

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Presenting a comprehensive collection of influential Yiddish women writers with new translations, this anthology explores the major transformations and upheavals... Read more

    Publisher: Exile Editions
    Publication Date: 30/05/2013
    ISBN13: 9781550963113, 978-1550963113
    ISBN10: 1550963112

    Number of Pages: 306

    Fiction , Anthologies & Short Stories

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    Presenting a comprehensive collection of influential Yiddish women writers with new translations, this anthology explores the major transformations and upheavals of the 20th century. Short stories, excerpts, and personal essays are included from 13 writers, and focus on such subjects as family life; sexual awakening; longings for independence, education, and creative expression; the life in Europe surrounding the Holocaust and its aftermath; immigration; and the conflicted entry of Jewish women into the modern world with the restrictions of traditional life and roles. These powerful accounts provide a vital link to understanding the Jewish experience at a time of conflict and tumultuous change.

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