Esther Segal
Esther Segal (1895–1974) was a Canadian Yiddish-language poet born in Ukraine.Segal was born in Slobkovitz, the daughter of a cantor and part of a Hasidic family of seven children that also included her brother, the poet Jacob Isaac Segal. Following her father's death, throughout the 1900s and 1910s, the family gradually settled in Montreal, where her mother's sisters lived. Segal herself immigrated in 1909. She received education in a cheder in Ukraine and attended night school in Montreal, as well as the Jewish Teacher’s Seminary in New York City.
She married the poet A.S. Shkolnikov and they had a daughter, Mashe.
She published poetry beginning in 1922 in the Yiddish literary journal 1922 in ''Epokhe'' ("Epoch"). She published frequently in journals and anthologies, including ''Yidishe dikhterins: Antologye'' (Yiddish poetesses: An anthology, edited by Ezra Korman). She only published a single volume of poetry, ''Lider'' ("Poems", 1928).
Shkolnikov died in 1962 and she followed Mashe to Israel in 1965. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Tamara Zoran, Bettina Sartori, Laura Sappl, Maria Aigner, Ferran Sánchez-Reus, Antonio Rezusta, Anuradha Chowdhary, Saad J. Taj-Aldeen, Maiken C. Arendrup, Salvatore Oliveri, Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo, Katrien Lagrou, Giuliana Lo Cascio, Jacques F. Meis, Walter Buzina, Claudio Farina, Miranda Drogari-Apiranthitou, Anna Grancini, Anna M. Tortorano, Birgit Willinger, Axel Hamprecht, Elizabeth Johnson, Lena Klingspor, Valentina Arsic-Arsenijevic, Oliver A. Cornely, Joseph Meletiadis, Wolfgang Prammer, Vivian Tullio, Jörg-Janne Vehreschild, Jörg-Janne Vehreschild, Laura Trovato, Russell E. Lewis, Esther Segal, Peter-Michael Rath, Petr Hamal, Manuel Rodriguez-Iglesias, Emmanuel Roilides, Sevtap Arikan-Akdagli, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Arnaldo L. Colombo, Mariana S. Fernández, M. Teresa Martin-Gomez, Hamid Badali, Georgios Petrikkos, Nikolai Klimko, Sebastian M. Heimann, Omrum Uzun, Maryam Roudbary, Sonia de la Fuente, Jos Houbraken, Brigitte Risslegger, Raquel Sabino, Cornelia Lass-Flörl, Michaela LacknerGet full text
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6by Tamara Zoran, Bettina Sartori, Laura Sappl, Maria Aigner, Ferran Sánchez-Reus, Antonio Rezusta, Anuradha Chowdhary, Saad J. Taj-Aldeen, Maiken C. Arendrup, Salvatore Oliveri, Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo, Katrien Lagrou, Giuliana Lo Cascio, Jacques F. Meis, Walter Buzina, Claudio Farina, Miranda Drogari-Apiranthitou, Anna Grancini, Anna M. Tortorano, Birgit Willinger, Axel Hamprecht, Elizabeth Johnson, Lena Klingspor, Valentina Arsic-Arsenijevic, Oliver A. Cornely, Joseph Meletiadis, Wolfgang Prammer, Vivian Tullio, Jörg-Janne Vehreschild, Jörg-Janne Vehreschild, Laura Trovato, Russell E. Lewis, Esther Segal, Peter-Michael Rath, Petr Hamal, Manuel Rodriguez-Iglesias, Emmanuel Roilides, Sevtap Arikan-Akdagli, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Arnaldo L. Colombo, Mariana S. Fernández, M. Teresa Martin-Gomez, Hamid Badali, Georgios Petrikkos, Nikolai Klimko, Sebastian M. Heimann, Omrum Uzun, Maryam Roudbary, Sonia de la Fuente, Jos Houbraken, Brigitte Risslegger, Cornelia Lass-Flörl, Michaela LacknerGet full text
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