Edith Post: Papers
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Edith Post: Papers
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Student papers written by Edith Post for courses taught by David Roskies.
Edith Post z”l (b.1927 Providence, R.I.; d. 2010 Los Angeles)
Edie (Khaye-Edis) was born to Yiddish-speaking immigrant parents Bertha Ellman (b. Yanovo, Lithuania) and Shlomo Post (b. Odessa). Edie stopped speaking Yiddish when she started public school at age 6 and had no formal Yiddish education. In 1983-84, at age 56, while on sabbatical from her 25- year career as a high-school English teacher in Los Angeles public schools, she returned to Yiddish as a beginning student in YIVO’s intensive summer program, which was then housed at Columbia University, and in the Oxford Summer Yiddish Program. Her Yiddish instructors included Sonia Pinkusowitz, Pesakh Fishman, Chava Lapin, Mordkhe Schaechter, Dovid Katz, and Eugene Orenstein.
In 1989 at the age of 62, Edie became David Roskie’s graduate student at JTS. From 1989-91, she wrote a series of brilliant papers on Yiddish literature, including major works by Sholem Aleichem, Itsik Manger, I.B Singer, Celia Dropkin, Rachel Korn, Kadia Molodowsky, Anna Margolin, and conducted research on Chaim Grade in preparation for a doctoral dissertation. Unfortunately, chronic illness prevented her from completing her work.
Her children are grateful to David Roskies for publishing Edie’s work on his website. His comments, visible on the papers below, underscore her brilliant mind and ground-breaking literary analyses, which we believe are as revelatory today as they were 35 years ago.
Edie (Khaye-Edis) was born to Yiddish-speaking immigrant parents Bertha Ellman (b. Yanovo, Lithuania) and Shlomo Post (b. Odessa). Edie stopped speaking Yiddish when she started public school at age 6 and had no formal Yiddish education. In 1983-84, at age 56, while on sabbatical from her 25- year career as a high-school English teacher in Los Angeles public schools, she returned to Yiddish as a beginning student in YIVO’s intensive summer program, which was then housed at Columbia University, and in the Oxford Summer Yiddish Program. Her Yiddish instructors included Sonia Pinkusowitz, Pesakh Fishman, Chava Lapin, Mordkhe Schaechter, Dovid Katz, and Eugene Orenstein.
In 1989 at the age of 62, Edie became David Roskie’s graduate student at JTS. From 1989-91, she wrote a series of brilliant papers on Yiddish literature, including major works by Sholem Aleichem, Itsik Manger, I.B Singer, Celia Dropkin, Rachel Korn, Kadia Molodowsky, Anna Margolin, and conducted research on Chaim Grade in preparation for a doctoral dissertation. Unfortunately, chronic illness prevented her from completing her work.
Her children are grateful to David Roskies for publishing Edie’s work on his website. His comments, visible on the papers below, underscore her brilliant mind and ground-breaking literary analyses, which we believe are as revelatory today as they were 35 years ago.
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Date
1989–1991
Language
English
Comments
Tara Neuwirth
My mother, Edith Post z"l", wrote the paper on Tevye in this collection. I have several more of her academic papers written for Dovid Roskies at JTS in the late 1980's, with his comments indicating that they were publishable. I would like to add them here, and if possibly to publish a selected one or two posthumously, perhaps on In Geveb. Please advise!
.איך רעד, לײען, און שרײַב יידיש