Miriam Karpilove (1888-March 9, 1956) was a Yiddish-language writer and novelist.
Karpilove was born in a small town near Minsk, to Elijah and Hannah Karpilov. [1] Karpilove immigrated to America and worked for a decade as a photographic retoucher before becoming a journalist. [2] She began writing in 1906, publishing her first piece that year in the Yiddish newspaper Di idishe fon. [3] After achieving success in New York Yiddish newspapers, including Der tog and Forverts, Karpilove worked as a writer and editor of the women's page of a Yiddish newspaper in Boston. [4] Karpilove would later draw on this experience in her 1926 novel A Provints-Tsaytung, whose protagonist is an undervalued journalist at a small newspaper. Karpilove was known for her serialized novels focusing on the lives of Jewish immigrant women in New York. [5] In her works, Karpilove used the form of letters and diary entries to express her characters' feelings and thoughts. [6] She served on the executive board of the Women's Jewish Congress Organization, a group working to ensure full political rights for Jews in foreign countries. [7]
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