The Blind Woman

Jacob Steinberg

1922

Hannah the blind woman was told before her wedding that her future husband was a widower in the tobacco business; at first they also assured her that this widower had been left with no children from his first wife. However, when that assurance was made, Hannah’s mother remembered that the blind woman used to get angry at every lie that was told her…

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Creator Bio

Jacob Steinberg

1887–1947

The Hebrew and Yiddish writer Jacob Steinberg was born in Ukraine and at age fourteen moved to Odessa and then later to Warsaw, both centers for Hebrew literature at the turn of the century. He published stories and poems in Hebrew initially but from 1909 began writing extensively in Yiddish. However, when he settled in Tel Aviv in 1914, he stopped writing in Yiddish. He translated (and revised) many of his earlier Yiddish stories into Hebrew, including “The Blind Woman.” The style of the Hebrew poetry he wrote in Palestine was unique: he was the only Hebrew poet living there who employed Ashkenazi pronunciation and stress. He also was known for his landmark essays on Yiddish and Hebrew writers.

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