The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies Lecture: Fradl Shtok and Women Writing Jewish Modernity

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Allison Schachter, a professor of Jewish studies, English, and Russian and East European studies at Vanderbilt University, will give a talk titled "Fradl Shtok and Women Writing Jewish Modernity" for the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies.

We know too little about the women writers, artists, and intellectuals who participated in transforming Jewish culture in the twentieth century. Allison Schachter offers a counter history of modern Yiddish literature from the perspective of women. Tracing the life story of modernist writer Fradl Shtok through archival records and closely reading her literary work, Schachter pieces together a story of women's artistic and literary lives in the first half of the 20th century.