Allison Schachter

Allison Schachter is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Chair of the Jewish Studies Department at Vanderbilt. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. She is the author of Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2013). She just completed a second manuscript entitled Experiments in Prose: Women Writing Jewish Modernity. She is also a translator from the Yiddish and is currently working on Fradel Shtok’s short fiction.

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Devorah Baron

Devorah Baron is one of the few Hebrew women prose writers in the first half of the twentieth century to gain critical acclaim in her lifetime. She wrote primarily about Jewish women’s lives, focusing on the challenges women faced in a society that did not value them equally. Her work was in dialogue with European writers, including Chekhov and Flaubert, and with Hebrew modernist writer S. Y. Agnon.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Allison Schachter." (Viewed on November 23, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/schachter-allison>.