Paper Bridges

Kadya Molodowsky, a prolific Yiddish poet, significantly shaped modern Yiddish literature through her extensive works, including poetry, fiction, and essays, published from 1927 to 1974. Initially teaching in Warsaw's Yiddish schools, she emigrated to America in 1935, where she supported herself by writing for the Yiddish press and founded the literary journal Svive. Molodowsky also contributed to Yiddish publications in Israel during the early 1950s and returned in 1971 to receive the esteemed Itzik Manger Prize.