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To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia
Balin
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Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. .
Carole Balin introduces us to dozens of Jewish women writers from late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century Tsarist Russia, focusing on five who were among the most prolific. Their extant literary remains include not only fiction, poetry, drama, translations, and essays, but also memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, and letters. Balin contextualizes the works of each within the culture in which she lived and wrote. Miriam Markel-Mosessohn (1839-1920) toiled to advance the goals of the Russian Haskalah (Enlightenment), translated German works into Hebrew, tried her hand at poetry, and became a foreign correspondent for a Hebrew newspaper at the age of 48. ... Read more
Carole Balin introduces us to dozens of Jewish women writers from late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century Tsarist Russia, focusing on five who were among the most prolific. Their extant literary remains include not only fiction, poetry, drama, translations, and essays, but also memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, and letters. Balin contextualizes the works of each within the culture in which she lived and wrote. Miriam Markel-Mosessohn (1839-1920) toiled to advance the goals of the Russian Haskalah (Enlightenment), translated German works into Hebrew, tried her hand at poetry, and became a foreign correspondent for a Hebrew newspaper at the age of 48. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Hebrew Union College Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780878204564
SKU
V9780878204564
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