Works written decades ago, often by female Jewish immigrants, were dismissed as insignificant or unmarketable. But in the past several years, translators devoted to the literature are making it available to a wider readership.
Source: New York Times
How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity
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