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Rachel

Biography

The poet Rachel`s life has taken on mythic proportions for Israel`s reading public.


Rachel (Bluwstein) was born in northern Russia in 1890, and died in Tel Aviv in 1931 of tuberculosis, which she contracted while working in schools for refugee children during World War I in Russia. All her poetry was published under her first name only, sometimes spelled ‘Rachel’, sometimes ‘Ra’hel’ (for example, by her American-born translator Robert Friend), and sometimes ‘Raxel’ or ‘Rahel’; these differences are due to the difficulties of transliterating the Hebrew consonant ‘xet’, which does not exist in European languages, except for Maltese (ħ), and which is pronounced by most of the speakers of Modern Hebrew like the Scottish ‘ch’ as in ‘Loch’ or the Dutch ‘g’ as in ‘graag’. Rachel immigrated to Palestine in 1909, during the period of Ottoman rule, and lived for nearly four years at an agricultural girls’ school on the shores of the Kinneret. In 1913
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Rachel May

American politician

Rachel May is an American academic, university administrator, and politician. She is a member of the New York State Senate, representing the 48th district since 2023, and the 53rd district from 2019-2022. The district comprises Syracuse, New York and surrounding communities. A Democrat, May defeated incumbent David Valesky in a 2018 primary election and was first elected to the State Senate in November 2018.

Background

May graduated with an A.B. in Slavic languages and literature from Princeton University in 1978 after completing a 99-page long senior thesis titled "Leisure Time and Its Functions in the Upbringing of New Soviet Men."[1] She was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master of Arts in 1981 before graduating from Stanford University with a Doctor of Philosophy in Slavic languages and Slavic literature in 1990. She taught at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York and Macalaster College in St. Paul, Minnesota as a tenured professor of Russian language and lite

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Rachel MacFarlane

Rachel MacFarlane’s interest in the Balkans possibly arose from a past life—of Midwestern Scottish/English stock, she can find no reasonable explanation as to the irresistible force which compelled her to study Russian by herself in junior high, then to acquire a degree in Slavic languages and literatures. On a whim she went folk dancing her first week at college, heard Macedonian zurla music, and was immediately diverted from Russian studies to South Slavic, to the dismay of her department head, who envisioned in her a future Pushkin specialist. In 1979 she made her first trip abroad to the Dalmatian coast (from where she retains a fondness for rosemary, lavender, white wine with mineral water and klapa music), making subsequent culture/language expeditions to Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Through the many ups and downs of her life, her passion for the region has never waned. Rachel is currently the General Manager and Program Director for the East European Folklife Center. She also designs naturalistic beaded snakes a

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