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The First Day and Other Stories

By Dvora Baron, Naomi Seidman (Editor), Chana Kronfeld (Editor), Naomi Seidman (Translator), Chana Kronfeld (Translator)
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By Dvora Baron, Naomi Seidman (Editor), Chana Kronfeld (Editor), Naomi Seidman (Translator), Chana Kronfeld (Translator)
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Dvora Baron (1887-1956), the first modern Hebrew woman writer, was born in a small Lithuanian town in 1887. Her father, a rabbi, gave his daughter a thorough education, an extraordinary act at the time. Baron immigrated to Palestine in 1910, married a prominent Zionist activist, but defied the implicit ideological demands of the Zionist literary scene by continuing to write of the shtetl life she had left behind.

The eighteen stories in this superb collection offer an intimate re-creation of...