Chava Rosenfarb's The Tree of Life An Epic about Life in the Lodz Ghetto with Goldie Morgentaler

Chava Rosenfarb was one of the great Yiddish writers of the second half of the 20th century. Born in 1923 in the Polish city of Lodz, she began writing poetry in the ghetto. After barely surviving Auschwitz, she was homeless and stateless for several years before immigrating to Canada. She was married to the abortion rights activist and physician Heniek (Henry) Morgentaler. Rosenfarb's work and life will be introduced by her daughter Goldie Morgentaler, a literature professor at the University of Lethbridge and the translator of her mother's works into English. The talk is preceded by a screening of the film Chava Rosenfarb: That Bubble of Being (2015, Yiddish with English subtitles).

• 2016-05-11

• Morgentaler, Goldie

• Ratner, Laurayne
• Revolutions and Their Aftermaths Working Group, UC San Diego Humanities Center

• UCSD-TV (Television station : La Jolla, Calif.)

Sponsored by Laurayne Ratner
Co-Sponsored by "Revolutions and Their Aftermaths," a UC San Diego Humanities Center Working group

• Poland
• Łódź (Poland)

• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
• Łódź Ghetto

• Rosenfarb, Chava

• Chava Rosenfarb: That Bubble of Being (Motion picture)
• History
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Jews
• Poetry
• The Tree of Life : The Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
• Women poets
• World War, 1939-1945

• video

• UC Regents

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2025-04-01