Paper Bridges: Selected Poems

by Kadya Molodowsky, Kathryn Hellerstein (Editor)

Kadya Molodowsky (1894-1975) was among the most accomplished and prolific of modern Yiddish poets. Between 1927 and 1974, she published six major books of poetry, as well as fiction, plays, essays, and children's tales. Molodowsky participated in nearly every aspect of Yiddish literary culture that existed in her lifetime, first in Poland, where she lived until 1935, when she emigrated, and then in America. Before her emigration, Molodowsky taught young children in the Yiddish schools of Warsaw. In New York, she supported herself by writing for the Yiddish press and founded a literary journal, Svive (Surroundings), which she edited for nearly thirty years. Briefly during the early 1950s, Molodowsky wrote and edited Yiddish publications in the new state of Israel. She returned there in 1971 to receive the Itzik Manger Prize, the most prestigious award in Yiddish letters.

Genres: Poetry, Judaism, Jewish

552 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Kadya Molodowsky (Yiddish: קאדיע מאלאדאווסקי; Hebrew: קדיה מולודובסקי also: Kadya Molodovsky|18406220]; May 10, 1894, in Bereza Kartuska, now Byaroza, Belarus – March 23, 1975, in Philadelphia) was a Polish-American poet and writer in the Yiddish language, and a teacher of Yiddish and Hebrew.

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[Hanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is why I study Yiddish. You should read it.