Woman on the Margin: Selected Poetry and Fiction of Elisheva - Paperback

by Reena M. Spicehandler (Author), Herbert J. Levine (Author)

Woman on the Margin reintroduces a strong literary and feminist voice into English after a hiatus of almost a century. Russian-born Elisheva Bukhovsky was a Hebrew writer and a Gentile who emigrated to Palestine with her husband and daughter to become a part of the Jewish national revival. Like most Hebrew writers of her generation, she did her creative work in a language not hers by birth. She was one of the first poets to write in the idiomatic language of the Yishuv, the Hebrew-speaking Jewish settlement in Palestine, while also making the poems musical through rhyme and meter.

Author Biography

Rabbi Reena Spicehandler was trained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, serving there as Dean of Admissions, Dean of Students, and instructor in 20th-century Hebrew Literature. She was an editor for the Kol HaNeshamah prayer book series. Herbert Levine, Ph. D., is the author of Yeats's Daimonic Renewal, Sing Unto God a New Song: A Contemporary Reading of the Psalms, and two volumes of bi-lingual poetry Words for Blessing the World and An Added Soul: Poems for a New Old Religion.