The idea of a literary tradition -- Old poems in a modern anthology -- Revolution, prayers, and sisterhood in interwar Poland -- The folk and the book : Miriam Ulinover and Roza Yakubovitsh -- The art of sex : Celia Dropkin and Anna Margolin -- Prayer-poems against history : Kadya Molodowsky and Malka Heifetz Tussman
In A Question of Tradition, Kathryn Hellerstein explores the roles that women poets played in forming a modern Yiddish literary tradition. Women who wrote in Yiddish go largely unrecognized outside a rapidly diminishing Yiddish readership. Even in the heyday of Yiddish literature, they were regarded as marginal. But for over four centuries, women wrote and published Yiddish poems that addressed the crises of Jewish history-from the plague to the Holocaust-as well as the challenges and pleasures of daily life: prayer, art, friendship, nature, family, and love. Through close readings and transla
