The Winding Road: My Childhood Years
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The Winding Road: My Childhood Years
Rokhl Feygenberg became one of the youngest authors published in Yiddish when her autobiographical debut novel, originally called My Childhood Years, was released serially in 1905. This fictionalized account of her own rough childhood in a small Belarusian shtetl in the 1890s is framed by the deaths of her father when she was five and that of her mother when she was fourteen. Forced to provide...
Rokhl Feygenberg (1885-1972) was born in the shtetl of Lyuban, Minsk Guberniya. Orphaned at fifteen, she lived in various cities throughout Europe and Israel before settling permanently in Tel Aviv in 1933. Among the earliest women professional authors published in the Yiddish press, Feygenberg went on to write novels, plays, essays, and a significant body of journalism in Yiddish and Hebrew....
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