Chava Shapiro | |
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Born | Slavuta, Volhynia, Russian Empire | 26 December 1876
Died | 28 February 1943 Prague, Czechoslovakia | (aged 66)
Pen name | Em Kol Chai (אֵם כָּל חָי) |
Occupation | Writer, critic, and journalist |
Language | Hebrew, Yiddish, German |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Bern |
Thesis | Lichtenberg als Philosoph (1911) |
Doctoral advisor | Ludwig Stein |
Chava Shapiro (Hebrew: חַוָּה שַׁפִירָא, romanized: Ḥava Shapira, ‹See Tfd›German: Ewa Schapiro; 26 December 1876 – 28 February 1943),[note 1] known also by the pen name Em Kol Chai (Hebrew: אֵם כָּל חָי, lit. 'Mother of All Living'),[note 2] was a Russian Jewish writer, critic, and journalist. A pioneer of Hebrew women's literature and feminist literary criticism, Shapiro was among the most prolific of the diasporic women writers of Hebrew in the early twentieth century.[3]
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