This course is offered in partnership with Penn State Emeritus Academy as part of the Academy’s lecture series, Explorations: The Penn State Emeritus Academy Lecture Series.
Just as feminists took upon themselves the goal to recover lost writing by earlier women authors, so Jewish women academics in the 1990s undertook to discover their own lost “treasures,” writing by their Jewish women forebearers that was unknown, untranslated, and unpublished in book form. A trove of translated novels, stories, and poetry is the result of their efforts. Dr. Rubin's lecture will introduce the audience to the lives and literature of several of these recovered Yiddish writers. What can we gain from this literature? Insight into different worlds of commune, shtetl, and ghetto; the pleasure of reading a newly discovered body of literature; and most of all, the satisfaction of viewing female characters (represented by women authors) as people with complex identities and resilient natures.
This course is free to members, nonmembers, and the community.
