Abstract
Miriam Karpilove was a prolific and widely popular writer of fiction about the changing roles of Jewish women in American immigrant culture. Her publishing career in the American Yiddish press spanned five decades, and her serialized novels became staple fare in the leading Yiddish dailies. Raised in a traditional Jewish home near Minsk, Belorussia at the end of the nineteenth century, she immigrated to the United States in her teens and became one of a small handful of women who achieved success as writers of Yiddish newspaper serials. Her writing is remembered for its pioneering treatment of important contemporary issues of female socialization, gender roles and sexual mores.