To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia

Carole Balin introduces us to dozens of Jewish women writers from late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century Tsarist Russia, focusing on five who were among the most prolific. Their extant literary remains include not only fiction, poetry, drama, translations, and essays, but also memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, and letters. Balin contextualizes the works of each within the culture in which she lived and wrote.

Miriam Markel-Mosessohn (1839-1920) toiled to advance the goals of the Ru…