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To Tread on New Ground - Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro (Paperback)
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To Tread on New Ground - Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro (Paperback)
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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. 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. Shapiro chronicled publicly and
privately such cataclysmic events as the Russian Revolution and
both World Wars, in addition to critical episodes in the Jewish
past, including pogroms, mass migration, ruptures in traditional
Jewish life, and the development of Zionism. A list of Shapiro's
intimates, whom she describes in both her diary and published
reminiscences, reads like a ""who's who"" of the Russian Haskalah:
including Y. L. Peretz, Reuven Brainin, David Frischmann, Nahum
Sokolov, Micha Yosef Berdischevsky, and Hayim Nahman Bialik. To
further contextualize Shapiro's writings, Balin and Zierler include
a thorough introduction and translations of critical essays about
Shapiro. Balin and Zierler's Hebrew edition of Shapiro's writing,
Behikansi atah, which was published in Israel in 2008, brought the
first broad attention and readership to Shapiro's remarkable
biography and writings. The translations in ""To Tread New
Ground"", which include previously uncollected materials, will be
welcomed by English-speaking readers interested in Hebrew
literature, East European Jewish history, and gender studies.
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