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Rokhl Korn
Rachel (Rokhl) Häring Korn ( yi, רחל קאָרן, 15 January 1898 – 9 September 1982) was a Poland, Polish-born Canadians, Canadian Yiddish language poet and author. In total, she published eight collections of poetry and two of prose. Seymour Mayne characterized her in 1985, three years after her death, as "the first major woman poet in Canadian literature." Biography Korn was born in East Galicia, eastern Galicia on a farming estate near Pidlisky (now in Ukraine), and started writing poetry at an early age. At the start of the First World War, her family fled to Vienna, returning to Poland in 1918. It was in this year that Korn's first published works appeared, in ''Nowy Dziennik'', a Zionist newspaper, and in ''Głos Przemyski'', a socialist journal. These items were published in Polish language, Polish, but a year later she published her first Yiddish poem in the ''Lemberger Tageblatt''. Her recognition grew with the publication of her first volumes of poetry: ''Dorf'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Galicia ()"Galicia" ''Collins English Dictionary'' ( uk, Галичина, translit=Halychyna ; pl, Galicja; yi, גאַליציע) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.See also: It covers much of such historic regions as Red Ruthenia (centered on Lviv) and Lesser Poland (centered on Kraków). The name of the region derives from the medieval city of Halych, and was first mentioned in Hungarian historical chronicles in the year 1206 as ''Galiciæ''. The eastern part of the region was controlled by the medieval Kingdom of Galicia a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
