Troim Katz Handler

Troim Katz Handler is the author of Simkhe, Yiddish love-letter poems, and co-author of two books in Yiddish and Japanese, written with Prof. Kazuo Ueda for students of Yiddish in Japan. After a thirty-year career as a secondary-school English teacher, she taught Yiddish at summer programs in Oxford, England. Her poetry has been published in the Yiddish Forverts and periodicals. Her poem “Blume Lempel” appeared in Der Bay in December 1999. She and her husband, Frank, lecture widely on Yiddish literature and Jewish history.

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Blume Lempel

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Chaske Blacker (Blacher)

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Troim Katz Handler." (Viewed on November 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/handler-troim>.