„Tu, na tym skrzyżowaniu historii ludzkości zaczyna się rola kobiety” – polska niepodległość a działalność żydowskich feministek i poetek jidysz
“Here, at this Crossroads in the History of Humankind, the Role of Women Begins”: Polish Independence and the Work of Jewish Feminists and Yiddish Women Poets

Summary/Abstract: Lisek discusses the reactions of Yiddish Women writers to the events of 1918 and Poland’s newly regained independence. Her focus is on women’s social and political work as well as their creative work. Both aspects – the development of women’s movements (Zionist, socialist and orthodox) and the heyday of Jewish Women’s writing – reflect an optimism resulting from newly arising opportunities as well as an increased anxiety and sense of alienation rooted in the traumatic experience of World War I and the wave of pogroms that followed in its wake. Lisek refers to the activist work of Pua Rakowska, Dina Blond, Sarah Schenirer as well as the creative work of writers such as Rachel Korn, Sarah Reisen and Roza Jakubowicz.

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