Woman on the Mar­gin rein­tro­duces a strong lit­er­ary and fem­i­nist voice into Eng­lish after a hia­tus of almost a century.

Russ­ian-born Eli­she­va Bukhovsky was a Hebrew writer and a Gen­tile who emi­grat­ed to Pales­tine with her hus­band and daugh­ter to become a part of the Jew­ish nation­al revival.

Like most Hebrew writ­ers of her gen­er­a­tion, she did her cre­ative work in a lan­guage not hers by birth.

She was one of the first poets to write in the idiomat­ic lan­guage of the Yishuv, the Hebrew-speak­ing Jew­ish set­tle­ment in Pales­tine, while also mak­ing the poems musi­cal through rhyme and meter.