Leah Rachel Yoffie

**Leah Rachel Clara Yoffie** (azán 15tọ Lidosun 1883 – azán 9tọ Nuwhàsun 1956) yin wekàntọ Amẹlika-nu de, mẹplọntọ podo aṣanu-plọntọ de po. E yin mẹplọntọ to  St. Louis, Missouri,  to fihe e mọ gbedewema daho-hugan yi to oplọn yovogbe tọn mẹ to whenuena e yin ovi owhe 50 mẹ tọn bosọ basi zinjẹgbonu gando ohomilomilo podo aṣanu-plọnmẹ lẹ go ehe yin nuyiwadeji gbọn numimọ jonọ Ju tọn de.

## Gbẹzan bẹjẹeji tọn podo wehọmẹ po
Yoffie yin jiji to  Ekaterinoslav, ahọluigba Russianu lẹ tọn (ehe wa yin yinyọnẹn todin taidi Dnipro to whèyihọ-waji Ukraine tọn) ovi yọnnu Abraham tọn Yoffie. Whẹndo etọn yin Ju de. E sẹtẹn yi United States podo whẹndo etọn po taidi oviyọnnu de to 1891 bosọ lẹzun tovi Amẹlika tọn to 1909. E mọ gbedewema bachelor's degree yi to wehọmẹ alavọ Washington University he tin to St. Louis to 1911,  podọ gbedewema daho master's degree to wehọmẹ alavọ University of Pennsylvania tọn mẹ.  To whenuena e tindo owhe kandeao, e mọ gbedewema daho-hugan Ph.D yi to yovogbe mẹ sọn wehọmẹ alavọ University of North Carolina.  Hosọ dodinnanu etọn lẹ wẹ  "Creation, the angels, and the fall of man in Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained and in the work of Sir Richard Blackmore" (1942).

## Azọ́n
Yoffie plọn wehọmẹvi he yin jonọ lẹ to zanmẹ to St. Louis, Missouri to whenuena e gbẹpo to wehọmẹ.  E nọ plọn yovogbe podo Civic po sọn 1915 jẹ 1931 to wehọmẹ Soldan High School to St. Louis. Sọn 1944 jẹ 1949 e yin wesetọ yovogbe tọn podọ Lẹnunnuyọnẹn Tonudidọ tọn to wehọmẹ Cottey College to Missouri. To whenue e gbẹpo to azọ́nwa taidi mẹplọntọ podọ to gbọjẹ whenu etọn mẹ, e basi zinjẹgbonu gando homilomilo podo hosọ delẹ gando aṣanu lẹ go ehe suhugan yetọn tin to zinjẹgbonu otògbo lọ tọn mẹ. E yin whinwhàn gbọn Franz Boas nado plọnnu gando aṣa Ju he yin jonọ lẹ tọn to St. Loius podọ suhugan kàndai etọn lẹ tọn sinai do hosọ lọ ji. 

Dopo to bladopọ homilomilo Yoffie tọn yin zize jẹgbonu to 1926 to hosọ lọ glọ Dark Altar Stairs.
*Homilomilo dopodopo wẹ họnwun hezeheze bosọ do pipe-yiyin hia to gigọ́mẹ he jẹ nado yin lila to homilomilo egbezangbe tọn mẹ,* dile vọzepọnbasitọ de basi kàndai etọn do to linlinwe St. Louis tọn mẹ. "Mẹmẹyọnnu Yoffie tindo jẹhẹnu hànjiji tọn podọ numimọ podo huhlọn po to hogbe ohàn etọn delẹ mẹ." E zindonukọn nado basi kàndai homilomilo devo lẹ tọn bosọ de fotó yetọn to dlapọn susu etọn do Palestine.

## Zinjẹgbonu lẹ
### Homilomilo po otàngblo po
* "Ad Gloriam" (1913, poem)
* "The Immigrant" (1913, poem)
* "Russia" (1916, poem)
* "A Cry of the Foreign Born" (1920, poem)
* "A Prayer for the Great White Fast" (1920, poem)
* "Faith" (1920, poem)
* "Sarah Miriam Goes to College" (1922, short story)
* "Reb Sholom Dovid" (1923, short story)
* "A Voice" (1923, poem)
* "The Lost Vision" (1924, poem)
* *Dark Altar Stairs* (1926, poetry collection)
* "Poems of Palestine" (1929, five short poems and five photographs by Yoffie)

### Wepinplọn vọnu
* "Present-Day Survivals of Ancient Jewish Customs" (1916)
* "Yiddish Proverbs, Sayings, etc., in St. Louis, Mo." (1920)
* "Popular Beliefs and Customs among the Yiddish-Speaking Jews of St. Louis, Mo." (1925)
* "Three Generations of Children's Singing Games in St. Louis" (1947)
* "Songs of the 'Twelve Numbers' and the Hebrew Chant of 'Echod mi Yodea'" (1949)
* "Chaucer's 'White Paternoster,' Milton's Angels, and a Hebrew Night Prayer" *(*1951)

## Gbẹzan mẹdetiti tọn podo walọyizan etọn po
Yoffie yin mẹgli de podọ tedidi 5ft po. E yi gbọjẹ do Florida to 1955. E basi matintọ to Clearwater, Florida, to 1956, to whenuena e tindo owhe 73. E jo owhe etọn he hugan akuẹ US$14,000 (ehe sin sọha yi  $139,537 to 2021), na ogbẹ́ Ju St. Loius tọn nado yido gọalọna nupinplọn vọnu.

## Alọdlẹndonu lẹ

Adà:Otàn Gbẹzan tọn
Adà:Mẹhe yin jiji to 1883 lẹ
Adà:Mẹhe kú to 1956 lẹ