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Avraham Novershtern

Avraham Novershtern is professor of Yiddish literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Lure of Twilight: Apocalypse and Messianism in Yiddish Literature (Hebrew) and of a critical edition of Anna Margolin's poems, as well as many monographs and articles about modern Yiddish literature.

Articles by this author

Yiddish: Women's Poetry

Women’s poetry in Yiddish first made its presence felt within the wider context of modern Yiddish culture in the late 1910s. Exploring topics from gender in Judaism to queer sexuality and eroticism, women’s Yiddish poetry cemented itself as its own literary corpus with priceless value and contribution to Yiddish literary culture.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Avraham Novershtern." (Viewed on August 13, 2021) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/novershtern-avraham>.

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