Leah Rachel Clara Yoffie (azán 15tọnLidosun 1883 – azán 9tọ Nuwhàsun 1956) yin wekàntọ Amẹlika-nu de, mẹplọntọ podo aṣanu-plọntọ de po. E yin mẹplọntọ to St. Louis, Missouri, to fihe e mọ gbedewema daho-hugan yi to oplọn yovogbe tọn mẹ to whenuena e yin ovi owhe 50 mẹ tọn bosọ basi zinjẹgbonu gando ohomilomilo podo aṣanu-plọnmẹ lẹ go ehe yin nuyiwadeji gbọn numimọ jonọ Ju tọn de.

Gbẹzan bẹjẹeji tọn podo wehọmẹ po

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Yoffie yin jiji to Ekaterinoslav, ahọluigba Russianu lẹ tọn (ehe wa yin yinyọnẹn todin taidi Dnipro to whèyihọ-waji Ukraine tọn) ovi yọnnu Abraham tọn Yoffie. Whẹndo etọn yin Ju de. E sẹtẹn yi United States podo whẹndo etọn po taidi oviyọnnu de to 1891 bosọ lẹzun tovi Amẹlika tọn to 1909. E mọ gbedewema bachelor's degree yi to wehọmẹ alavọ Washington University he tin to St. Louis to 1911,[1] [2] podọ gbedewema daho master's degree to wehọmẹ alavọ University of Pennsylvania tọn mẹ. [3] To whenuena e tindo owhe kandeao, e mọ gbedewema daho-hugan Ph.D yi to yovogbe mẹ sọn wehọmẹ alavọ University of North Carolina. [4] Hosọ dodinnanu etọn lẹ wẹ "Creation, the angels, and the fall of man in Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained and in the work of Sir Richard Blackmore" (1942).[5]

Azọ́n

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Yoffie plọn wehọmẹvi he yin jonọ lẹ to zanmẹ to St. Louis, Missouri to whenuena e gbẹpo to wehọmẹ. E nọ plọn yovogbe podo Civic po sọn 1915[6] jẹ 1931 to wehọmẹ Soldan High School to St. Louis.[7] Sọn 1944 jẹ 1949 e yin wesetọ yovogbe tọn podọ Lẹnunnuyọnẹn Tonudidọ tọn to wehọmẹ Cottey College to Missouri. To whenue e gbẹpo to azọ́nwa taidi mẹplọntọ podọ to gbọjẹ whenu etọn mẹ, e basi zinjẹgbonu gando homilomilo podo hosọ delẹ gando aṣanu lẹ go ehe suhugan yetọn tin to zinjẹgbonu otògbo lọ tọn mẹ. E yin whinwhàn gbọn Franz Boas nado plọnnu gando aṣa Ju he yin jonọ lẹ tọn to St. Loius podọ suhugan kàndai etọn lẹ tọn sinai do hosọ lọ ji.[8] [9][10]

Dopo to bladopọ homilomilo Yoffie tọn yin zize jẹgbonu to 1926 to hosọ lọ glọ Dark Altar Stairs.[11][12] Homilomilo dopodopo wẹ họnwun hezeheze bosọ do pipe-yiyin hia to gigọ́mẹ he jẹ nado yin lila to homilomilo egbezangbe tọn mẹ, dile vọzepọnbasitọ de basi kàndai etọn do to linlinwe St. Louis tọn mẹ. "Mẹmẹyọnnu Yoffie tindo jẹhẹnu hànjiji tọn podọ numimọ podo huhlọn po to hogbe ohàn etọn delẹ mẹ." E zindonukọn nado basi kàndai homilomilo devo lẹ tọn bosọ de fotó yetọn to dlapọn susu etọn do Palestine.

Zinjẹgbonu lẹ

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Homilomilo po otàngblo po

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  • "Ad Gloriam" (1913, poem)[13]
  • "The Immigrant" (1913, poem)[14]
  • "Russia" (1916, poem)[15]
  • "A Cry of the Foreign Born" (1920, poem)[16]
  • "A Prayer for the Great White Fast" (1920, poem)[17]
  • "Faith" (1920, poem)[16]
  • "Sarah Miriam Goes to College" (1922, short story)[18]
  • "Reb Sholom Dovid" (1923, short story)[19]
  • "A Voice" (1923, poem)[20]
  • "The Lost Vision" (1924, poem)[21]
  • Dark Altar Stairs (1926, poetry collection)[22]
  • "Poems of Palestine" (1929, five short poems and five photographs by Yoffie)[23]

Wepinplọn vọnu

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  • "Present-Day Survivals of Ancient Jewish Customs" (1916)[24]
  • "Yiddish Proverbs, Sayings, etc., in St. Louis, Mo." (1920)[25]
  • "Popular Beliefs and Customs among the Yiddish-Speaking Jews of St. Louis, Mo." (1925)[26]
  • "Three Generations of Children's Singing Games in St. Louis" (1947)[27]
  • "Songs of the 'Twelve Numbers' and the Hebrew Chant of 'Echod mi Yodea'" (1949)[28]
  • "Chaucer's 'White Paternoster,' Milton's Angels, and a Hebrew Night Prayer" (1951)[29]

Gbẹzan mẹdetiti tọn podo walọyizan etọn po

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Yoffie yin mẹgli de podọ tedidi 5ft po. E yi gbọjẹ do Florida to 1955. E basi matintọ to Clearwater, Florida, to 1956, to whenuena e tindo owhe 73. E jo owhe etọn he hugan akuẹ US$14,000 (ehe sin sọha yi $139,537 to 2021), na ogbẹ́ Ju St. Loius tọn nado yido gọalọna nupinplọn vọnu.[30][31][32]

Alọdlẹndonu lẹ

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  1. Washington University, The Hatchet (1912 yearbook): 28.
  2. Washington University, The Hatchet (1927 yearbook): 36.
  3. "Soldan High School Teacher Writes Virile, Melodious Poems". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1926-02-27. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Miss Leah Yoffie Dies; Ex-Teacher; Scholar-Poet Published Articles on Folklore after Retirement". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1956-05-09. p. 19. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Yoffie, Leah Rachel Clara (1942). Creation, the angels, and the fall of man in Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained and in the work of Sir Richard Blackmore (Ph.D. thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. OCLC 37950314.
  6. "Miss Yoffie's Appointment". The Modern View. 1915-09-10. p. 46. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Rudman, Mary (1926-04-30). "Dark Altar Stairs: A Review". The Modern View. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. "Imagining Europe: the popular arts of American Jewish ethnography." Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America (2001): 155-91.
  9. Randolph, Vance; Musick, Ruth Ann (1951). "Folksong Hunters in Missouri". Midwest Folklore. 1 (1): 23–31. ISSN 0544-0750. JSTOR 4317253.
  10. Hurvitz, Nathan (1954). "Jews and Jewishness in the Street Rhymes of American Children". Jewish Social Studies. 16 (2): 135–150. ISSN 0021-6704. JSTOR 4465224.
  11. Sper, Felix (May 20, 1927). "Verse by Leah Yoffie". The American Hebrew. 121: 114.
  12. Flanigan, Mary Leedy (December 1927). "Review of 'Dark Altar Stairs'". American Poetry Magazine. 9 (10): 19–20.
  13. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (1913-06-27). "Ad Gloriam". The Modern View. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. Yoffie, Leah Rachel Clara (1913-07-04). "The Immigrant". The Jewish Voice. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (1916-10-20). "Russia". The Modern View. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. 16.0 16.1 Yoffie, Leah Rachel (September 1920). "'Faith' and 'A Cry of the Foreign-Born'". Contemporary Verse. 9 (9): 143, 144.
  17. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (1920-09-17). "A Prayer for the Great White Fast". The Jewish Voice. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (1922-03-17). "Sarah Miriam Goes to College". The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (January 1, 1923). "Reb Sholom Dovid". The Survey. 49 (7): 453.
  20. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (November 1923). "A Voice". Contemporary Verse. 16 (5): 76.
  21. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (March 1924). "The Lost Vision". Contemporary Verse. 17 (3): 37.
  22. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (1926). Dark Altar Stairs (in English). Modern view Publishing Company.
  23. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (1929-04-26). "Poems of Palestine". The Modern View. pp. 35, 37. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. Yoffie, Leah R. C. (1916). "Present-Day Survivals of Ancient Jewish Customs". The Journal of American Folklore. 29 (113): 412–417. doi:10.2307/534687. ISSN 0021-8715. JSTOR 534687.
  25. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (1920). "Yiddish Proverbs, Sayings, etc., in St. Louis, Mo". The Journal of American Folklore. 33 (128): 134–165. doi:10.2307/534954. ISSN 0021-8715. JSTOR 534954.
  26. Yoffie, Leah Rachel (1925). "Popular Beliefs and Customs among the Yiddish-Speaking Jews of St. Louis, Mo". The Journal of American Folklore. 38 (149): 375–399. doi:10.2307/535237. ISSN 0021-8715. JSTOR 535237.
  27. Yoffie, Leah Rachel Clara (1947). "Three Generations of Children's Singing Games in St. Louis". The Journal of American Folklore. 60 (235): 1–51. doi:10.2307/536830. ISSN 0021-8715. JSTOR 536830.
  28. Yoffie, Leah Rachel Clara (1949). "Songs of the "Twelve Numbers" and the Hebrew Chant of "Echod mi Yodea"". The Journal of American Folklore. 62 (246): 382–411. doi:10.2307/536580. ISSN 0021-8715. JSTOR 536580.
  29. Yoffie, Leah Rachel Clara. Chaucer's" White Paternoster," Milton's Angels, and a Hebrew Night Prayer. Southern Folklore Quarterly, 1951.
  30. "Soldan Teacher Leaves Estate to Federation to Aid Students; $14,500 Left by Leah Yoffie for School Grants". St. Louis Jewish Light. 1957-10-25. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  31. "Yoffie Memorial Scholarship Won by WU Student". St. Louis Jewish Light. 1960-01-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  32. "Leah Yoffie Loan Grants Deadline Set". St. Louis Jewish Light. 1964-04-29. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-03-03 – via Newspapers.com.