Yiddish women wrote poetry, short stories, novels, essays, memoirs, literary and cultural criticism, and autobiography, among other genres, exploring a wide range of topics — domesticity, desire, politics, the environment, and the ravages of war, and more. This March, in honor of Women’s History Month and of the vital contributions made by women writers to the field of Yiddish literature, the Yiddish Book Center has curated a diverse selection of items by and about Yiddish women writers.

These writers were brilliant and daring, complicated and compassionate, exuberant and quiet, and endlessly fascinating, the center says. Their work has much to tell us about the conditions and possibilities for women in the times in which they lived, and also modern Jewish culture, writing and publishing, immigration, and other topics. [Pictured, a Yiddish literary sisterhood, top row, from left: Malka Lee, Esther Shumiatsher, and Berta Kling. Bottom row, from left, Celia Dropkin, Sara Reyzen, and Ida Glazer.

To explore and listen to their stories, visit yiddishbookcenter.org/.