Miriam Karpilove
Miriam Karpilove (1888-March 9, 1956) was a Yiddish-language writer and novelist.
Biography
Karpilove was born in a small town near Minsk, to Elijah and Hannah Karpilov.{{Cite web |last=Kellman |first=Ellen |date=2021-06-23 |title=Miriam Karpilove |url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/karpilove-miriam |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=Jewish Women's Archive |language=en}} Karpilove immigrated to America and worked for a decade as a photographic retoucher before becoming a journalist.{{Cite web |last=Kirzane |first=Jessica |title=Miriam Karpilove, Photographic Retoucherin {{!}} Yiddish Book Center |url=https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/discover/bronx-bohemians/miriam-karpilove-photographic-retoucherin |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=www.yiddishbookcenter.org |language=en}} She began writing in 1906, publishing her first piece that year in the Yiddish newspaper Di idishe fon.{{Cite book |last=Karpilove |first=Miriam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9TWEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22miriam+karpilove%22+1906&pg=PA1 |title=A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories |date=2023-09-15 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-5687-6 |language=en}} After achieving success in New York Yiddish newspapers, including Der tog and Forverts, Karpilove worked as a writer and editor of the women's page of a Yiddish newspaper in Boston.{{Cite book |last=Brinn |first=Ayelet |title=A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press |date=2023 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=9781479817672}} Karpilove would later draw on this experience in her 1926 novel A Provints-Tsaytung, whose protagonist is an undervalued journalist at a small newspaper. Karpilove was known for her serialized novels focusing on the lives of Jewish immigrant women in New York.{{Cite book |last=Corrsin |first=Stephen D. |title=Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage. |date=2012 |publisher=The New York Public Library |pages=138}} In her works, Karpilove used the form of letters and diary entries to express her characters' feelings and thoughts.{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge history of Jewish American literature |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |editor-last=Wirth-Nesher |editor-first=Hana |pages=403}} She served on the executive board of the Women's Jewish Congress Organization, a group working to ensure full political rights for Jews in foreign countries.{{Cite journal |date=June 30, 1916 |title=Women Organize for Jewish Congress |journal=The American Jewish Chronicle |volume=1 |issue=8 |pages=252}}
Bibliography
Plays
- In di shturem teg: Drama. New York: 1909.
Novels
- Yudes. New York: Mayzel et Co., 1911
- Tagebukh fun an elender meydl oder der kamf gegn fraye libe. New York: S. Kantrowitz, 1918.
- Brokhe, a Kleyn-Shtetldike. New York: 1923.
- A Provints-Tsaytung. New York: 1926.
- Di yam-tsig. Serialized in Forverts, October 19, 1929 – January 4, 1930.
- Kapitlekh fun dem lebn fun meydl. Serialized in Forverts, April 12, 1930 – June 25, 1930.
- Di retenish. Serialized in Forverts, October 14, 1930 — Sunday, April 5, 1931.
- Ire gelibte. Serialized in Forverts, October 17, 1931 — January 9, 1932.
- A lebn far a lebn. Serialized in Forverts, April 21, 1932 – October 23, 1932.
- Vu iz Feni? Serialized in Forverts, April 11, 1933 – October 28, 1933.
- Ire mener. Serialized in Forverts, September 14, 1935 — January 3, 1936.
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