Remembering Two of Montreal's Yiddish Women Poets: Esther Segal and Ida Maza

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Remembering Two of Montreal's Yiddish Women Poets: Esther Segal and Ida Maza
Abstract
Esther Segal (1895-1974) and Ida Maza (1890-1962) were Yiddish poets active in Montreal's literary milieu from the 1920s through the 1960s. While both were recognized by their contemporaries as significant voices in Yiddish poetry, they have been remembered in very different ways. The author presents the careers and writings of Segal and Maza as well as their roles as cultural figures in Montreal's Jewish immigrant community. She examines how their work has been disseminated and how they have been remembered. In the process, she raises questions of posterity in Yiddish literature: Who is remembered and included in the canon of Yiddish Canadian letters, and why?
Publication
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Studies
Volume
Vol. 19
Pages
141-173
Date
2010
Language
en
Notes

Reprinted in: Women Writers of Yiddish Literature: Critical Essays. Rosemary Horowitz (ed). Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2015, pp. 230-248.

Citation
Margolis, Rebecca. “Remembering Two of Montreal’s Yiddish Women Poets: Esther Segal and Ida Maza.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Studies Vol. 19 (2010): 141–173.
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