| Anna Margolin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Rosa Harning Lebensboym 1887 Brest, Belarus, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1952 New York, United States |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | United States |
| Literary movement | Di yunge |
Anna Margolin (Yiddish: אַננאַ מאַרגאָליו) is the pen name of Rosa Harning Lebensboym (1887–1952) a twentieth century Jewish Russian-American, Yiddish language poet.
Born in Brest, Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, she was educated up to secondary school level, where she studied Hebrew.[1] She first went to New York in 1906, and permanently settled there in 1913. Most of her poetry was written there.[2] Margolin was associated with both the Di Yunge and ‘introspectivist’ groups in the Yiddish poetry scene at the time, but her poetry is uniquely her own.[3] Though her reputation rests mainly on the single volume of poems she published in her lifetime, Lider ('Poems', 1929), a posthumous collection, Drunk from the Bitter Truth, including English translations has been published. One reviewer described her work as "sensual, jarring, plainspoken, and hard, the record of a soul in direct contact with the streets of 1920s New York".[4]
Poetry