Journal Article

Beyond the Women’s Section

Brinn, Ayelet

2020

Overview

[...]in reality, she asserted, women \"are able to write frankly and freely about only two things: clothing and love.\" [...]there are no women in American newspapers who are city editors, managers, or editorial writers.\" Though she only published one volume of poems, she has come to be seen in retrospect as one of the most important Yiddish poets. Because of this, most of the scholarship related to Lebensboym centers on this aspect of her work.5 But for most of her life, she made her living as a journalist—writing, editing, and translating articles for a variety of newspapers. In this book, Iceland recounted his experiences as a poet and journalist, and vividly described the circle of writers and intellectuals of which he was a part. Because she was his long-term romantic and intellectual partner, and because of her fame as a poet, Iceland devoted significant attention to Lebensboym in his memoir. According to him, the periodical's editor, Shoel Yanovsky, was so taken with these stories that he asked to meet with her, both to invite her to continue contributing to the

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Subject: 20th century / Autobiographical literature / Autobiographies / Careers / Editing / Editors / Journalism / Journalists / Literary translation / Poetry / Women / Writing / Yiddish language / Yiddish literature