Leah Rachel Yoffie | |
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Born | April 15, 1883 Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine) |
Died | May 9, 1956 Clearwater, Florida, US | (aged 73)
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 |
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.