Miriam Karpilove

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Miriam Karpilove (1888-March 9, 1956) was a Yiddish-language writer and novelist.

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Biography

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]

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References

  1. Kellman, Ellen (2021-06-23). "Miriam Karpilove". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2024-05-09.
  2. Kirzane, Jessica. "Miriam Karpilove, Photographic Retoucherin | Yiddish Book Center". www.yiddishbookcenter.org. Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  3. Karpilove, Miriam (2023-09-15). A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories. Syracuse University Press. ISBN   978-0-8156-5687-6.
  4. Brinn, Ayelet (2023). A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press. NYU Press. ISBN   9781479817672.
  5. Corrsin, Stephen D. (2012). Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage. The New York Public Library. p. 138.
  6. Wirth-Nesher, Hana, ed. (2015). The Cambridge history of Jewish American literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 403.
  7. "Women Organize for Jewish Congress". The American Jewish Chronicle. 1 (8): 252. June 30, 1916.