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Blume Lempel (May 13, 1910–October 20, 1999) was a Yiddish-language writer.
Biography[edit]
Lempel was born in Khorostikov, where she was educated at a cheder and a Hebrew elementary school.[1] In 1929, she left Ukraine for Paris where she stayed until 1939, when she immigrated to New York.[2] Lempel's writing career began in 1943 with a short story published in Der Tog.[3] In 1947 she serialized a novel about the Occupation of Paris in Morgn Frayhayt, called Tsvishn tsvey veltn (Between Two Worlds).[4] The novel was an unusual treatment of the Occupation, featuring a romantic relationship between a Nazi and a Jewish woman.[5] In 1954, as Blanche Lempel, she published Storm Over Paris, a translation of the 1947 novel.[6] While not widely reviewed, it was positively received, with the Pasadena Independent describing it as having "some of the bitter elements of a great novel".[7]
Binem Heller served as Lempel's literary editor and agent for her first volume of short stories.[8]
Bibliography[edit]
Works in English
- Storm Over Paris. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.
- Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories. Translated by Ellen Cassidy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. Takoma Park: Mandel Vilar Press, 2022.
Short story collections:
- A rege fun emes. Tel Aviv: Y.L. Perets, 1981.
- Balade fun a holem. Tel Aviv: Yisroel-bukh, 1986.
References[edit]
- ^ Bark, Sandra, ed. (2003). Beautiful as the moon, radiant as the stars : Jewish women in Yiddish stories : an anthology. Warner Books. p. 301.
- ^ Found treasures : stories by Yiddish women writers. 1994. p. 359.
- ^ "Blume Lempel". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
- ^ Kagan, Berl (ed.). "Lempel, Blume (May 13, 1910–October 20, 1999)". Leksikon Fun Der Nayer Yidisher Literatur. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
- ^ Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron; Cassedy, Ellen. "To Dive into the Self: The Svive of Blume Lempel". Women Writers of Yiddish Literature. p. 107.
- ^ Anderson, Phoebe C. (August 10, 1954). "No Pause For Beauty: Storm Over Paris by Blanche Lempel". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 28.
- ^ "Books in Brief". Pasadena Independent. July 18, 1954. p. 86.
- ^ "Modern in Autumn | Yiddish Book Center". www.yiddishbookcenter.org. Retrieved 2024-05-05.