{"product_id":"a-jewish-refugee-in-new-york-rivke-zilbergs-journal-9780253040763","title":"A Jewish Refugee in New York: Rivke Zilberg's Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eRivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a journal about the challenges and opportunities of this new land. In her attempt to find a new life as a Jewish immigrant in the US, Rivke shares the stories of losing her mother to a bombing in Lublin, jilting a fiancé who has made his way to Palestine, and a flirtatious relationship with an American \"allrightnik.\"\u003cbr\u003eIn this fictionalized journal originally published in Yiddish, author Kadya Molodovsy provides keen insight into the day-to-day activities of the large immigrant Jewish community of New York. By depicting one woman's struggles as a Jewish refugee in the US during WWII, Molodovsky points readers to the social, political, and cultural tensions of that time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKadya Molodovsky (1894-1975) was one of the most well-known and prolific writers of Yiddish literature in the twentieth century. Born in Bereze, a small town in what is now Belarus, educated in Poland and Russia, Molodovsky was an established writer when she came to the United States in 1935. Known primarily as a poet, essayist, and editor, she published over twenty books, including plays and four novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnita Norich is author of \u003ci\u003eWriting in Tongues: Yiddish Translation in the 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDiscovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Literature in America During the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer\u003c\/i\u003e; and editor of \u003ci\u003eLanguages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intercontext\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eGender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Professor Emerita of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan and translates Yiddish literature, and teaches, lectures, and publishes on a range of topics concerning modern Jewish cultures, Yiddish language and literature, Jewish American literature, and Holocaust literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410016932114,"sku":"9780253040763","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_43278549-7027-414d-a459-47df5c643669.jpg?v=1729298886","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-jewish-refugee-in-new-york-rivke-zilbergs-journal-9780253040763","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}