by Yona Zeldis McDonough

Retrieving Gertrud Kolmar

60 years later, her lusty, doomed heroines come to life

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Gertrud Kolmar is hardly a household name, even in the households of the most exalted literary circles. Born in Berlin in 1894, she was a kind of latter-day Emily Dickinson, who led a quiet, reclusive life caring for her aging parents and writing astonishing poetry until the rise of Hitler and her deportation—probably to Auschwitz—abruptly ended her days.

Spring 1998

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Winter 2018-9

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Fall 2018

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Summer 2018

Jewish women running for office. When food endangered Jews. The challenge of raising liberal kids in Israel. A Moroccan Jew finds common ground with Muslim feminists in Tangier. The proud history of midwives?

Retrieving Gertrud Kolmar

60 years later, her lusty, doomed heroines come to life

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