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Article: A Woman's Voice: Sarah Foner, Hebrew Author of the Haskalah.
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- April 1, 2005
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A Woman's Voice: Sarah Foner, Hebrew Author of the Haskalah
translated by Morris Rosenthal
Dailey International Publishers
Wilbraham, MA 01095
ISBN 0966625129 $21.95 302 pp.
Six works of Sarah Foner are translated from Hebrew into English by Morris Rosenthal, her great grandson. Sarah Menkin Foner was the first woman writer in Hebrew before Hebrew became revived as the national language of Israel. Eschewing Yiddish, excluded her from the popular magazines, but established a place for her within literature as she used her thorough knowledge of rabbinic literature to strengthen her writing through allusions and quotations ...