Rhea Tregebov
Author of The Big Storm
About the Author
Rhea Tregebov was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1953. She received a BA in English at the University of Manitoba and a MA in English from Boston University. She worked for years as a freelance technical writer and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the show more University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, where she teaches poetry, children's literature and literary translation. She is the author of several collections of poetry including No One We Know, The Proving Grounds, and The Strength of Materials. Remembering History won the Pat Lowther Award and Poems from Mapping the Chaos received the Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award and the Malahat Review Long Poem Award. She is also the author of several children's picture books including The Extraordinary Ordinary Everything Room, The Big Storm, Sasha and the Wiggly Tooth, Sasha and the Wind, and What-If Sara. She wrote an adult novel entitled The Knife Sharpener's Bell in 2009. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Tregebov, Rhea
- Birthdate
- 1953
- Gender
- female
- Education
- University of Manitoba
Cornell University
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- professor
poet
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- Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
University of British Columbia - Short biography
- Rhea Tregebov was born in Saskatoon and raised in Winnipeg. She studied at the University of Manitoba, Cornell University, and Boston University, where she earned an M.A. in English and American literature. She taught creative writing for many years in the Continuing Education program at Ryerson University in Toronto. She also worked as a freelance editor of adult and young adult fiction as well as poetry. From 2002 to 2004, she was coordinating editor for Sumach Press in Toronto. In 2005, she joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia.
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- Canada
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- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Places of residence
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Associated Place (for map)
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In 2000, a group of senior Jewish women in Winnipeg, intrigued by the large Yiddish collection at the Winnipeg Public Library, decided to form a reading circle for discussion of these works. Concerned that these works would be lost, they began to translate the stories and memoirs, and this book is the result.
Although the women represented here are all Eastern European, they led varied lives, some active in the worlds of literature and journalism, others not so much. Some emigrated, to the show more United States, to Canada, to Palestine (as it was then); others were lost in the Holocaust. All had something to say.
The works of the nine writers represented here range geographically from the shtetl to Miami Beach, in time from the 1905 Revolution to the present. The characters are young women and old, country and city dwellers, immigrants, Holocaust survivors, and their children and grandchildren. Some are funny, some somber, some in between.
If your idea of the shtetl was formed by "Fiddler on the Roof", read Rochel Broches devastating account of the short life of mamzers in "Little Abrahams" or Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn's "No More Rabbi!" Hamer-Jacklyn and Frume Halpern write movingly of the plight of older women, the search for stability and love. Bryna Bercovitch and Paula Frankel-Zaltzman are represented by their memoirs, the one of life in the Ukraine, the other of the Dvinsk ghetto.
We owe the Winnipeg Women's Yiddish Reading Circle a debt of gratitude for rescuing these stories from the library's dusty shelves, and making them available to a new audience. show less
Although the women represented here are all Eastern European, they led varied lives, some active in the worlds of literature and journalism, others not so much. Some emigrated, to the show more United States, to Canada, to Palestine (as it was then); others were lost in the Holocaust. All had something to say.
The works of the nine writers represented here range geographically from the shtetl to Miami Beach, in time from the 1905 Revolution to the present. The characters are young women and old, country and city dwellers, immigrants, Holocaust survivors, and their children and grandchildren. Some are funny, some somber, some in between.
If your idea of the shtetl was formed by "Fiddler on the Roof", read Rochel Broches devastating account of the short life of mamzers in "Little Abrahams" or Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn's "No More Rabbi!" Hamer-Jacklyn and Frume Halpern write movingly of the plight of older women, the search for stability and love. Bryna Bercovitch and Paula Frankel-Zaltzman are represented by their memoirs, the one of life in the Ukraine, the other of the Dvinsk ghetto.
We owe the Winnipeg Women's Yiddish Reading Circle a debt of gratitude for rescuing these stories from the library's dusty shelves, and making them available to a new audience. show less
beautiful, beautiful, but damn hard to get through. still working on it, hoping for a single story with some sort of positive ending.
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