Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country.
She is Professor Emerita of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan and translates Yiddish literature, and teaches, lectures, and publishes on a range of topics concerning modern Jewis.
Anita Norich is author of Writing in Tongues: Yiddish Translation in the 20th Century
Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Literature in America During the Holocaust
The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer; and editor of Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives
Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intercontext; and Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures.
Known primarily as a poet, essayist, and editor, she published over twenty books, including plays and four novels.
Born in Bereze, a small town in what is now Belarus, educated in Poland and Russia, Molodovsky was an established writer when she came to the United States in 1935.
About the Author: Kadya Molodovsky (1894-1975) was one of the most well-known and prolific writers of Yiddish literature in the twentieth century.
By depicting one woman\'s struggles as a Jewish Refugee in the US during WWII, Molodovsky points readers to the social, political, and cultural tensions of that time and place.
In her attempt to find a new life as a Jewish immigrant in the US, Rivke shares the stories of losing her mother to a bombing in Lublin, jilting a fianc who has made his way to Palestine, and a flirtatious relationship with an American "allrightnik." In this fictionalized Journal originally published in Yiddish, author Kadya Molodovsy provides keen insight into the day-to-day activities of the large immigrant Jewish community of New York.
Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a Journal about the challenges and opportunities of this new land.
Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country
