Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
In Geveb; a Journal of Yiddish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2019) pp 19
Keywords:
Margolin, Anna Criticism and interpretation
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Mary In literature
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Yiddish poetry Women authors
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History and criticism
Abstract:
In 1929, the poet Anna Margolin, a pen name of the journalist Rosa Lebensboym, published her only volume of poems, Lider. Margolin included a cycle of seven poems in this collection titled “Mari” (“Mary”), in which she examines gender, sexuality, and identity through the lens of a poetic persona who may or may not be linked to the Virgin Mary. Unlike many of her male contemporaries, who also employed Christological themes in their work, Margolin used the figure of Mary to express the complex position of the female Yiddish poet. Masking her identity through the poetic persona of Mary, Margolin explored the consequences for women of male control of both religious and poetic norms. Margolin’s Mary cycle engages both explicitly, through reference to the story of the Virgin Mary and its themes, and implicitly, through form and absence, with identity and the self-definition of a woman touched by an experience of the divine, whether a visit from God or an encounter with art.
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