The Winding Road: My Childhood Years - Rokhl Feygenberg

Feygenberg, Rokhl: - Rokhl Feygenberg (1885-1972) was born in the shtetl of Lyuban, Minsk Guberniya. Orphaned at fifteen, she lived in various cities throughout Europe and Israel before settling permanently in Tel Aviv in 1933. Among the earliest women professional authors published in the Yiddish press, Feygenberg went on to write novels, plays, essays, and a significant body of journalism in Yiddish and Hebrew. Feygenberg's 1926 book about the Dubova pogroms was instrumental in the defense and acquittal of Shalom Schwarzbard