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<p>The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. She was born in a Russian <i>shtetl</i>, the precocious daughter of a rabbi. Her intellectual gifts garnered her an education usually reserved for boys, and she soon proved a brilliant writer, widely published while still in her teens. At age twenty-three she immigrated to Palestine, married a prominent Zionist journalist, and joined the literary intelligentsia of the emerging nation. Her writing showed startlingly modernist points of view (a day-old baby girl in "The First Day" and a female Jewish dog in "Liska," for example), and she took on such topics as divorce ("Fradl"), incest ("Grandma Henya"), and domestic violence ("A Quarreling Couple"). But when her beloved brother died in 1923, Baron retired to her apartment. There she spent the last thirty years of her life, in touch with the literary community but rejecting her early stories as "my rags." She never left her residence and spent most of her time in bed, tended by her daughter.<br> Israeli writer and psychologist Amia Lieblich was seventeen when Dvora Baron died; the two women never met. But Lieblich has written this biography as a series of con

Author

Amia Lieblich

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520085398

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Religion, Language Learning

Rating

3.67 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14