Kadia Molodowsky

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Kadia Molodowsky was a prominent Yiddish poet who significantly contributed to 20th-century Yiddish literature. Born in Belarus, she later lived in Odessa and Kiev before publishing her first poetry. Molodowsky moved to Warsaw, where she released influential collections like Kheshvndike nekht (1927) and Dzshike gas (1933). Her work often explored themes of womanhood and the experience of being a female writer. In 1935, she immigrated to the United States. Her later collection, Der melekh David aleyn iz geblibn (1946), poignantly addressed the devastation of the Nazi genocide.1

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Kadia Molodowsky moved from Belorussia to Odessa and then Kiev, where she published her first poetry and was influenced by David Bergelson and his circle. From 1922 to 1935 she lived in Warsaw and published her important collections of poems Kheshvndike nekht (1927; “Nights of…
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Kadia Molodowsky moved from Belorussia to Odessa and then Kiev, where she published her first poetry and was influenced by David Bergelson and his circle. From 1922 to 1935 she lived in Warsaw and published her important collections of poems Kheshvndike nekht (1927; “Nights of…
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