Miriam Karpilove
Miriam Karpilove (1888-March 9, 1956) was a Yiddish-language writer and novelist.
Biography[edit]
Karpilove was born in a small town near Minsk, to Elijah and Hannah Karpilov.[1] Karpilove immigrated to America and worked for a decade as a photographic retoucher before becoming a journalist.[2] She began writing in 1906, publishing her first piece that year in the Yiddish newspaper Di idishe fon.[3] After achieving success in New York Yiddish newspapers, including Der tog and Forverts, Karpilove worked as a writer and editor of the women's page of a Yiddish newspaper in Boston.[4] Karpilove would later draw on this experience in her 1926 novel A Provints-Tsaytung, whose protagonist is an undervalued journalist at a small newspaper. Karpilove was known for her serialized novels focusing on the lives of Jewish immigrant women in New York.[5] In her works, Karpilove used the form of letters and diary entries to express her characters' feelings and thoughts.[6] She served on the executive board of the Women's Jewish Congress Organization, a group working to ensure full political rights for Jews in foreign countries.[7]
Bibliography[edit]
Plays
- In di shturem teg: Drama. New York: 1909.
Novels
- Yudes. New York: Mayzel et Co., 1911
- Tagebukh fun an elender meydl oder der kamf gegn fraye libe. New York: S. Kantrowitz, 1918.
- Brokhe, a Kleyn-Shtetldike. New York: 1923.
- A Provints-Tsaytung. New York: 1926.
- Di yam-tsig. Serialized in Forverts, October 19, 1929-January 4, 1930.
- Kapitlekh fun dem lebn fun meydl. Serialized in Forverts, April 12, 1930-June 25, 1930.
- Di retenish. Serialized in Forverts, October 14, 1930 — Sunday, April 5, 1931.
- Ire gelibte. Serialized in Forverts, October 17, 1931 — January 9, 1932.
- A lebn far a lebn. Serialized in Forverts, April 21, 1932-October 23, 1932.
- Vu iz Feni? Serialized in Forverts, April 11, 1933-October 28, 1933.
- Ire mener. Serialized in Forverts, September 14, 1935 — January 3, 1936.
References[edit]
- ^ Kellman, Ellen (2021-06-23). "Miriam Karpilove". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2024-05-09.
- ^ Kirzane, Jessica. "Miriam Karpilove, Photographic Retoucherin | Yiddish Book Center". www.yiddishbookcenter.org. Retrieved 2024-05-24.
- ^ Karpilove, Miriam (2023-09-15). A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5687-6.
- ^ Brinn, Ayelet (2023). A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479817672.
- ^ Corrsin, Stephen D. (2012). Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage. The New York Public Library. p. 138.
- ^ Wirth-Nesher, Hana, ed. (2015). The Cambridge history of Jewish American literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 403.
- ^ "Women Organize for Jewish Congress". The American Jewish Chronicle. 1 (8): 252. June 30, 1916.