To tread on new ground
Subtitle: selected Hebrew writings of Hava Shapiro
By: edited by Carole B. Balin and Wendy I. Zierler
Contributors: Balin, Carole B., editor; Zieler, Wendy Ilene, 1965- editor
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Detroit, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780814338698; 9780814338704
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Works
Description: "In "To Tread New Ground": Selected Writings of Hava Shapiro, editors and translators Carole B. Balin and Wendy I. Zierler present an English anthology of Shapiro's late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Hebrew writings. The selection culls from her short fiction, feminist literary criticism, reportage and literary essays, as well as her diary and hundreds of letters. Hava Shapiro is among the nearly forgotten Jewish women writers who sought acceptance in Jewish literary circles of the last century. Born in Slavuta (modern-day Ukraine) in 1878, she published works of fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and journalism, including a volume of short fiction and a scholarly monograph on the Czech leader Masaryk. Her handwritten diary-the first known diary to be kept by a woman in Hebrew-evokes not only the momentous events of her day but also the experiences of women like herself who failed to follow the dictates of Jewish tradition and aspired to roles beyond those of wife and mother" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.