Froy

Holzer was drawn to plays that portrayed strong, independent women, such as Froy Advokat and Dray Froyen (Three Women) by Morozowicz-Szczepkowska.

Rokhl Holzer. 2009

Di Froy in der Yidisher Poezye [The woman in Yiddish poetry] (1966); Tussman, Malka Heifetz.

Yiddish Literature in the United States. 2009

Miss Froy seems like a sweet old helpless dear, and I suppose she is; but it turns out, very extremely satisfyingly, that she's also a keen British spy.

Archive 2009-10-01 Fresca 2009

Dame May Whitty as Miss Froy ("rhymes with joy") in The Lady Vanishes (UK, 1938, directed by Alfred Hitchcock)

Archive 2009-10-01 Fresca 2009

She also edited a daily column for the paper, “Di Froy un di Heym” [The woman and the home], under the name of Rose Mary.

Rose Shoshana. 2009

In 1966, Shmuel Rozhansky published Di Froy in der Yidisher Poezye [The woman in Yiddish poetry] as volume 29 of his Musterverk fun der Yidisher Literatur, a monumental project of canon formation intended to run to one hundred volumes containing representative works of Yiddish literature.

Yiddish Literature in the United States. 2009

In contrast to the Bundist YAF (Yidisher Arbeter Froy), which came into being in 1925, the YFA was middle-class in its membership, independent of all political parties though not apolitical, and Zionist in its orientation.

Yiddishe Froyen Asosiatsiye-YFA (Jewish Women's Association). 2009

Glants, A. “Kultur un di Froy” [Culture and women].

Yiddish Literature in the United States. 2009

Zikhroynes fun a Byalistoker Froy (1964); Krantz, Judith.

Autobiography in the United States. 2009

As Chaim Malitz noted in his 1918 book entitled Di Heym un di Froy [The home and the woman], “Take away the mother from the home, and there remains no home” (41).

Eastern European Immigrants in the United States. 2009