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Join Goldie Morgantaler, editor of Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays by Chava Rosenfarb, for the online event Writing Yiddish While Female: An Investigation of Chava Rosenfarb's Legacy. Presented by Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University and The Naomi Foundation.
Goldie Morganaler is professor of English at the University of Lethbridge. She will be joined by Hannah Pollin-Galay, senior lecturer in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University.
Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada in 1950 and settling in Montreal. There she wrote novels, poetry, short stories, plays, and essays, including The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto, a seminal novel on the Holocaust.
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays comprises thirteen personal and literary essays by Rosenfarb, ranging from autobiographical accounts of her childhood and experiences before and during the Holocaust to literary criticism that discusses the work of other Jewish writers. The collection also includes two travelogues, which recount a trip to Australia and another to Prague in 1993, the year it became the capital of the Czech Republic. While several of these essays appeared in the prestigious Yiddish literary journal Di goldene keyt, most were never translated. This book marks the first time that Rosenfarb's non-fiction writings have been presented together in English.