The name in the poem: women Yiddish poets (1). From: Shofar | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Hellerstein, Kathryn | COPYRIGHT 2002 University of Nebraska Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A poet's name appearing in a poem signals the question: To what degree does the individual writer speak for her/himself and to what degree for the community? In Old Yiddish poems, no modern idea of the individual writer is present. When the poet signs her name--Rivke Tiktiner in an acrostic, Royzl Fishls and Toybe Pan in a rhymed stanza--she carves her name into her prayer or proem according to the convention of signature established by medieval Hebrew liturgical poems. She names h...

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