Miriam Karpilove and the Yiddish Newspaper
Hosted By: Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA)
When the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s “A Provincial Newspaper” leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked. In this talk, Kirzane will discuss Karpilove’s satire of the Yiddish newspaper workplace together with a selection of short stories Karpilove published in the Forverts in the 1930s, during her time as a staff writer at that newspaper.
Jessica Kirzane is the assistant instructional professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago. She is the editor in chief of In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies and the translator of three works by Miriam Karpilove: Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle against Free Love (Syracuse UP, 2020), Judith: A Tale of Love and Woe (Farlag Press, 2022), and A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories (Syracuse University Press, forthcoming).
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