Leah Rachel Yoffie
Leah Rachel Clara Yoffie (April 15, 1883 – May 9, 1956) was an American writer, educator, and folklorist. She was a teacher in St. Louis, Missouri, earned a Ph.D. in English in her fifties, and published both poetry and folklore studies influenced by her Jewish immigrant experience.
Leah Rachel Yoffie | |
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Leah Rachel Yoffie, from the 1927 yearbook of Washington University in St. Louis | |
| Born | April 15, 1883 Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine) |
| Died | May 9, 1956 (aged 73) Clearwater, Florida, US |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis University of Pennsylvania University of North Carolina |
| Thesis | Creation, the angels, and the fall of man in Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained and in the work of Sir Richard Blackmore (1942) |
| Influences | Franz Boas |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Folklore, poetry, political science, Jewish American culture |
| Institutions | Cottey College |
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