Shira Gorshman (April 10, 1906 – April 4, 2001)
and her story Unspoken Hearts
The film with Shira Gorshman. Documentary
Shira Goldman a Yiddish Writer of Women as Folk Heroes דרך חדשה - שירה גורשמן חוזרת לגדוד העבודה
A new way - Shira Gorshman returns to the work force
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•Shira was born in 1906 in the
town of Kroki, Kovno province •Father divorced her mother •Lived with her grandfather •Marriage in 1923 •with her husband and daughter, left for Palestine •She joined the Gdud Ha-Avoda (Workers' Battalion) left Palestine and went to build a "bright Jewish communist future" in Crimea. Mendel Gorshman fell in love with her and took her to Moscow In 1989, Shira left Moscow, taking only a few pictures of her late husband Mendl Gorshman with her, and repatriated to Israel a second time. Her life bindings and excellent Hebrew, which she had not had the opportunity to use for decades, amazed many in Israel. Bibliographical note: •JWA: Forman, Frieda Johles. "Shira Gorshman." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. 31 December 1999. Jewish Women's Archive.https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gorshman-shira •YBC: https://www.yiddishcenter.org/post/115-years-anniversary-of-shira-gorshman •YIVO:https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Gorshman_Shira |
Books by Shirke, der Dertseyler
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Questions
1. Who is Khane? What happened? Why did she left? The reason fot the conflict? A conflict itself?
2. How would you characterise Gitl? Why did she decided to leave Khana with her mother? 3. The poetics of homecoming: what are the rules seen in the story: Is Khane part of the household or a guest? how is she supposed to act? what is the guest supposed to do? 4. Is Khane happy because of her coming back? What are the reason? When is the moment when she knows it is good she comes back? 5. The meaning of the title: what does it mean unspoken hearts? |