1. Introduction to the course on Jewish Women's Short Stories |
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2. Judith Plaskow, Jewish Feminism and Dvorah Baron |
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3. Burning Girls and the story of Lilith |
Excerpt from the short story by Veronica Schanoes
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4. Emma Goldman, her texts, her story, her myth
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5. Chava Rosenfarb, Edgia's Revenge
6. FRADL SCHTOK, THE VEIL and Celia Dropkin's A DANCER
7. Rokhl KORN THE ROAD WITH NO RETURN
8. Anzia Jezierska, America and I
Immigrating with her family from the Russian Pale of Settlement to the United States in the early 1890s , Anzia Yezierska turned the frustrations and indignities she suffered in New York’s tenements into stories that depicted the lives of Jewish immigrants. In 1915, she published her first short story, “Free Vacation House,” about the humiliations charitable organizations perpetrate on the women they claim to help. In 1922, her collection Hungry Hearts was made into a silent film. Her first novel, Salome of the Tenements (1923), drew on the experiences of famed labor organizer, Rose Pastor Stokes. Yezierska, dubbed the "Cinderella of the Sweatshop," wrote her best-known novel, Bread Givers(1925), about an immigrant daughter struggling against her Orthodox father's rigid idea of Jewish womanhood. Her work fell into obscurity until the 1975 reissue of Bread Givers.
LINK: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/yezierska-anzia |
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9. Franz Kafka and interpretation of the story by Nadine Gordimer
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Please, have a look at the interview as a introduction to the author life and philosophy.
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10. Grace Paley, Ida Fink, Allegra Goodman
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