"Though she commanded attention by being the first Yiddish poet to use the sonnet form, Fradel's primary energy seemed to have gone into fiction. Her immigration must have had severe consequences on her writing and she obviously experienced language conflicts: Erzeylungen (Stories) appeared in 1919 and then an English novel, For Musicians Only in 1927. Both received poor reviews. Erzeylungen was set in Eastern Europe and in America. Some stories, humorous and satiric, depict Jewish society at critical moments: "Der ershter ban" (The first train) in a small shtetl or "Der ershter patsyent" (The first patient) of a young dentist in America. Other stories are more somber and describe the conflict between inner longings and social (i.e. Jewish) norms. Trapped by social and religious mores, Fradel's characters often cloak their feelings in "appropriate" behavior."
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Women authors from the United StatesImmigrants to the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesPeople from Galicia
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Irena Klepfisz in in The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology (1989)
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Fradl Shtok
1888 – 1952
Fradl Shtok (Yiddish: פֿראַדעל שטאָק) (also Fradel Stock, 1888 – 1952?) was a Jewish-American Yiddish-language poet and writer, who immigrated to the United States from Galicia, Austria-Hungary as a teenager.
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