Anna Margolin

Anna Margolin ( _yi. אַננאַ מאַרגאָליו) is the pen name of Rosa Harning Levensbaum (1887-1952) a twentieth century Jewish Russian-American, Yiddish language poet.

Born in Brest, Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, she was educated up to secondary school level, where she studied Hebrew. [cite web
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accessdate = 2007-04-01 ] In she arrived in New York where most of her poetry was written. [cite web
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accessdate = 2007-04-01 ] Margolin was associated with both the Di Yunge and ‘introspectivist’ groups in the Yiddish poetry scene at the time, but her poetry is uniquely her own. [cite web
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accessdate = 2007-04-01 ] Her reputation rests mainly on the single volume of poems she published in her lifetime, "Lider" or 'Poems', in 1929.

Bibliography

Poetry
* "Lider". [Poems] (1929)
* "Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin". Translated Shirley Kumove. (SUNY, 2005) ISBN 0-7914-6579-9 [http://bostonreview.net/BR31.5/microreviews.html Review]

References

External links

* [http://zackarysholemberger.blogspot.com/2005/05/bridge-anna-margolin-from-yiddish-z.html The Bridge] Short poem in translation
* [http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/iiddica/Khronologye/y_20yh/Margolin/mar_lidr.html 2 poems] yi icon
* [http://www.ibiblio.net/pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele/vol1.010 A Reading of Anna Margolin's "Mit halb farmakhte oygn"]

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NAME=Margolin, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Twentieth century Jewish Russian-American, Yiddish language poet
DATE OF BIRTH=1887
PLACE OF BIRTH=Brest, Belarus, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH=1952
PLACE OF DEATH=New York, United States