Anna Margolin ( yi, אַננאַ מאַרגאָלין) is the

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of Rosa Harning Lebensboym (1887–1952) a twentieth century

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Biography

Born in

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, then part of the

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, she was educated up to secondary school level, where she studied

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. She first went to New York in 1906, and permanently settled there in 1913. Most of her poetry was written there. Margolin was associated with both the

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and ‘introspectivist’ groups in the Yiddish poetry scene at the time, but her poetry is uniquely her own. In her early years in New York City Margolin joined the editorial staff of the liberal Yiddish daily ''

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'' (The Day; founded 1914). Under her real name she edited a section entitled "In der froyen velt" (In the women's world); and also wrote journalistic articles under various pseudonyms, including "Sofia Brandt," and – more often, in the mid 1920s – "Clara Levin." Though her reputation rests mainly on the single volume of poems she published in her lifetime, ''Lider'' ('Poems', 1929), a posthumous collection, ''Drunk from the Bitter Truth'', including English translations has been published. One reviewer described her work as "sensual, jarring, plainspoken, and hard, the record of a soul in direct contact with the streets of 1920s New York".

Bibliography

Poetry * ''Lider''.

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/nowiki> (1929) * ''Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin''. Translated Shirley Kumove. (SUNY, 2005)

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References

External links

The Bridge
Short poem in translation
A Reading of Anna Margolin's "Mit halb farmakhte oygn"
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Article in ''Forverts''

Anna Margolin papers
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, RG 1166. {{DEFAULTSORT:Margolin, Anna 1887 births 1952 deaths People from Brestsky Uyezd Jews from the Russian Empire Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Jewish American poets Yiddish-language poets Jewish women writers American women poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers