CANCELLED - Jessica Kirzane - "Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love" - Miriam Karpilove
**This event has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule in the coming months.**
There will be a discussion with Jessica Kirzane, translator of Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love by Miriam Karpilove. A Q&A and signing will follow the event.
At the Co-op
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This evening is being co-presented by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Germanic Studies.
About the Book: From the perch of a diarist writing in first person about her own love life, Karpilove's Yiddish novel of immigrant life told from the perspective of a woman offers a raw personal criticism of radical leftist immigrant youth culture in early twentieth century New York.
About the Author: Miriam Karpilove (1888–1956) published dramas, criticism, sketches, short stories, and novellas in a variety of prominent Yiddish periodicals during her fifty-year career. She was a member of the Forverts staff, publishing seven novels and numerous works of short fiction in that paper between 1929 and 1937.
About the Translator: Jessica Kirzane is the lecturer in Yiddish at the University of Chicago and the editor in chief of In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies.
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First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviors, shot through with a dark humor. From the perch of a diarist writing in first person about...