Anna Margolin was born in 1887 in modern-day Belarus and died in 1952 in New York City. When her poems—now classics of Yiddish-language literature–were first published, literary critics declared that she must have been a man using a female name, because they believed no woman could write that well.
I Was Once a Handsome Boy I was once a handsome boy, heard Socrates in the porticos, […]