Anna Margolin (Yiddish: אַננאַ מאַרגאָלין) is the pen name of Rosa Harning Lebensboym (1887–1952) a twentieth century Jewish Russian-American, Yiddish language poet.
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Born | Rosa Harning Lebensboym 1887 (1887) Brest, Belarus, Russian Empire |
Died | 1952 (aged 64–65) New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
Literary movement | Di Yunge |
Born in Brest, then part of the Russian Empire, she was educated up to secondary school level, where she studied Hebrew.[1] She first went to New York in 1906, and permanently settled there in 1913. Most of her poetry was written there.[2] Margolin was associated with both the Di Yunge and ‘introspectivist’ groups in the Yiddish poetry scene at the time, but her poetry is uniquely her own.[3]
In her early years in New York City Margolin joined the editorial staff of the liberal Yiddish daily Der Tog (The Day; founded 1914). Under her real name she edited a section entitled "In der froyen velt" (In the women's world); and also wrote journalistic articles under various pseudonyms, including "Sofia Brandt," and – more often, in the mid 1920s – "Clara Levin."[4][5]
Though her reputation rests mainly on the single volume of poems she published in her lifetime, Lider ('Poems', 1929), a posthumous collection, Drunk from the Bitter Truth, including English translations has been published. One reviewer described her work as "sensual, jarring, plainspoken, and hard, the record of a soul in direct contact with the streets of 1920s New York".[6]
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