Open AccessRACHELA BOJMWOŁ. Szkic do portretu
Author(s) -
Marian Kisiel
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
rusycystyczne studia literaturoznawcze
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-9674
pISSN - 0208-5038
DOI - 10.31261/rsl.2017.27.07
Subject(s) - compendium , emigration , judaism , yiddish , communism , history , classics , literature , art , political science , politics , archaeology , law
The paper delineates the history of Rachel Boymvol — a poetess, and an author of aphorisms, fables both for children and adults, and a compendium concerning Yiddish idiomatics. Her life — from the fascination with communism in the 1930s to facing persecutions in 1940s and 1950s, and emigration to Israel in 1971 — is one of the many fates of Russian writers of Jewish descent. Previously a noteworthy fabulist, published in millions of volumes, this later forgotten author is slowly regaining her place within Russian literature after 2000.