At the Well

Rivke Rubin

1943

Her Yoysef was hanging on the shaft of the well. His beard lay humbly on his breast. His fallen shoulders and feebly dangling hands expressed the most profound hopelessness. What can I do? A stone has been tied to the other end of the shaft, so the body cannot descend.

On the ground near the well lay her daughter, the twenty-five-year-old Beylke…

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Rivke Rubin

1906–1987

Yiddish writer and critic Rivke Rubin was born in Minsk and studied literature at the Minsk Pedagogical Institute and the Belorussian Academy of Sciences. From 1934, Rubin taught Yiddish literature at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and published critical studies on Sholem Aleichem, Mendele Moyker-Sforim, and Y. L. Peretz. Many of Rubin’s articles and stories were published in the journal Sovetish heymland, whose editorial board she joined in 1961. She ultimately resigned from the periodical because of its anti-Israel stance.

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