This roundtable marks the publication of "Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores: Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant" (Wayne State University Press, 2016).
Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman—who died in 2011 at the age of 101—was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant—who is still living and occasionally publishing—wrote a substantial body of Hebrew verse from the 1940s to the 1960s, their work is virtually unknown today, even to those familiar with Hebrew literature in America. The roundtable will discuss the singular voices of these women, introduce their captivating and wide--ranging poetry and place it in its historical, literary, and cultural contexts. The roundtable will feature editor Shachar Pinsker, the translator Adriana Jacobs, Adina Kleiman (the daughter of the poet Anne Kleiman), and Anita Norich.