Paulina Lebl Albala
1891–1967Spouse | David Albala |
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Date of birth | August 09, 1891 |
Date of death | October 08, 1967 |
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Personal situation
She was born on August 9, 1891, in Belgrade, as the youngest child of Natalija and Simon Lebl, who worked as an engineer for a French company in charge of building railroads in Serbia. She had three sisters: Hermina, Jelena, and Ruža.
She finished primary school and two years of secondary school in Niš.
1904–1906: She finished the third and the fourth grade of the Higher School for Girls in Belgrade. She attended the School for Teachers for a short while.
1906–1909: She attended and graduated from the First Grammar School for Girls, where she studied classical languages. She participated in the work of the literary group Nada (Hope). During 1906 and 1907, she published her first translations in the daily newspaper Politika (Politics).
1909: Her essay O čitanju (On Reading) was awarded and published. The same year she began studying architecture in Belgrade, but she dropped out in the first semester.
1909–1913: She studied Serbian and French literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Since the end of 1913, she taught at the First Grammar School for Girls in Belgrade.
1917–1918: Paulina travels to Switzerland, settling afterwards in Belgrade. From 1919 to 1939, she lives in Belgrade.
1920: She became a teacher in the Second Grammar School for Girls and married the physician David Alba. She would have a daughter with him, named Jelena Alba Gojić.
1940: Paulina leaves for the United States of America. In 1942, she settles in New York.
1948: She travels to Israel with the first group of emigrants.
1951–1955: Lives in Rome, and later on in Canada.
October 8, 1967: Paulina Lebl Albala dies in Los Angeles.
Place of birth | Beograd |
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Place(s) of residence | Italy, Serbia, Switzerland, United States of America, Israel, and Canada |
Place of death | Los Anđeles |
Nationality | Jewish |
First language(s) | English and French |
Marital status | Married |
Number of children | 1 |
Name(s) of children | Jelena Alba Gojić |
Gender of children | F |
Education | University education |
Professional situation
She published translations of works by Ida Boy Ed, Goethe, Ludwig Thoma, Barrès, Heine, Flaubert, and Oscar Wilde. She was a member of the organization Women's Movement, and co-editor of the eponymous magazine. She was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Glasnik Jugoslovenskog ženskog saveza (Yugoslavian Women’s League Herald), and also president of the Association of University Women. She published many essays on literature and other topics, including articles on women and young women, reviews, stories, travel books, and translations in leading periodicals such as the Revue Yougoslave, Srpski književni glasnik (The Serbian Literary Herald), Letopis Matice srpske (The Chronicle of Matica Srpska), Politika (Politics), Književni jug (The Literary South), Žena danas (Woman Today), and many more. She edited several publications, among which Odabrane strane (Selected Pages) by Lj. P. Nenadović (1926); Misli (Thoughts) by B. Knežević (1931); Bilten Udruženja univerzitetski obrazovanih žena (Bulletin of the Association of University Women) (1931–1935); L’Oeuvre littéraire des femmes yougoslaves (1936), which she prefaced and wrote introductory notes to some of its chapters, as well as the sections regarding Serbian women authors; Monahinja Jefimija (Nun Jefimija) (1936), etc. From 1940 to 1942, while she was in the United States, she participated in the work of the Yugoslavian Information Center, collaborated with newspapers such as the Amerikanski srbobran (The American Defender of Serbs), Slobodna reč (The Free Word). Later on, she wrote for the Jewish Almanac and helped published the Bulletin of The Association of Yugoslav Jews in the United States (New York, 1961). In 2005, her autobiographical work, Tako je nekad bilo (That’s How It Used to Be), was published in Serbia.
Edited by Dubravka Đurić
Translated by Dunja Dušanić
Profession(s) and other activities | fiction writer/novelist, travel writer, contributor to periodical press, social-cultural activist, literary critic, journalist, teacher/governess, editor of periodical press, and translator |
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Language(s) in which she wrote | English, French, and Serbian |
Memberships | Of editorial boards and Other |
Works by this author
Monographs
- Teorija književnosti i analiza pismenih sastava: za srednje i stručne škole 1923
- Razvoj univerzitetski obrazovanih žena 1930
- Gertruda 1931
- Deset godina rada Udruženja univerzitetski obrazovanih žena u Jugoslaviji: 1928-1938, 1939
- Izabrana proza 1951
- Tako je nekad bilo 2005
Articles and other similar texts
- Zlatno zrnevlje 193?
- Bugarska istorija 1300–2000
- Jugoslovenska književnost 1300–2000
- Alfred Nobel 1300–2000
- Bugarska književnost 1300–2000
- Dužnosti savremene jevrejske žene 1300–2000
- Tihomir Đorđević. Naš narodni život 1300–2000
- O Bogdanu Popoviću 1300–2000
- Obetovana zemlja privlači ?
- Glanz (Sjaj) 1906
- Allegro furioso 1907
- O Hamletu 1909
- O čitanju 1909
- Der Star 1910
- Dorian Grey 1910
- Put iz Minhena u Đenovu 1910
- Mučenje nadom 1911
- Viktor Igo u srpskoj književnosti 1912
- Legenda o svetom Julijanu Gostoprimcu 1912
- Noćni napad 1912
- Čvorak 1912
- Crna Gora - Albanija 1913
- Tom Bred i Džon Bred 1913
- Mon premier amour 1913 (1914)
- Dve žene briškog građanina 1913
- Književni i pozorišni pogledi 1913 i 1914
- Izola Bela 1914
- Smrt Jovana Skerlića 1914
- Skerlićeva Godišnjica 1915
- O transcripciji latinicom stranih osobnih imena 1918
- Jedan susret 1918
- Moderna žena 1918
- Le Même chemin 1919
- Vrednost emocije u životu 1919
- Jedna nepravda. Dodatci na skupoću ženama državnim činovnicima 1920
- Sveti Sava 1920
- Međunarodni savez za ograničenje priraštaja 1920
- Ružica Stojanović 1920
- Stanislav Vinaver 1920
- Milica Janković. Pre sreće. 1920.
- Naše učenice : Odlomak iz studije „Naš ženski Podmladak” 1921
- Prikaz knjige Zdenke Marković: Let 1921
- Mogu li žene doći na univerzitetsku katedru 1921
- Dositej i Njegoš o ženama 1922.
- Antologija srpskih narodnih pesama, od Vojislava M. Jovanovića 1922
- Le Journalisme et la littérature 1922
- Jovan Skerlić 1922
- Ka poznavanju Ljubomira P. Nenadovića 1923
- Sećanje na Jovana Skerlića 1924
- Gospođa de Stal 1924
- Ljubomir P. Nenadović. Odabrane strane 1926
- Ideje Ljubomira P. Nenadovića 1926
- Kriza knjige 1927
- Srpski prevodi iz francuske književnosti u 18. veku 1927
- Razvoj univerzitetskog obrazovanja žena 1928
- Putopisi Jovana Dučića 1928
- Potreba za organizacijom univerzitetski obrazovanih žena 1930
- Razvijanje socijalne svesti 1930
- Stan za izdavanje 1930
- Ima pravde na ovome svetu 1930
- Pismo predsednice Udruženja univerzitetski obrazovanih žena, upućeno univerzitetski obrazovanim ženama 1930.
- Dr. Tihomir Đorđević. Naš narodni život 1931.
- Sreća 1932
- Izložba dečje knjige: jedna kulturna manifestacija Ženskog pokreta 1933
- Gramofon 1933
- Znanje je svetlost 1933
- Impresije iz Engleske 1933
- Kongres PEN kluba u Dubrovniku 1933
- Udeo jugoslovenskih Jevreja u izgradnji duhovne kulture 1933
- Jelisaveta Popović-Ibrovac 1934
- Proslava dvadesetpetogodišnjice Prve ženske gimnazije u Beogradu 1934
- Dvadesetpetogodišnjica Prve ženske gimnazije 1934
- Pogled na skupštinu Jugoslovenskog ženskog saveza 1934
- Udaja 1934
- Povodom premijere Nušićevog „Uježa“ 1935
- Sa prvog kongresa Udruženja univerzitetski obrazovanih žena 1935
- Uticaj žena na stvaranje javnog mišljenja 1935
- Vardar 1935
- Godišnjica smrti Velikog Kralja 1935
- Spremanje profesora srednje nastave u Bugarskoj 1935
- Viktor Hugo i Srbi 1935
- Publikacije povodom kongresa Internacionalnog ženskog saveza 1936
- Pregled pokreta za mir 1936
- A. Arato: L'Einseignement sécondaire des jeunes filles en Europe 1936/1937
- Značaj kongresa Internacionalnog ženskog saveza u Dubrovniku 1936
- Prikaz knjige Ikonije Simić: Katarina Milovuk, njen život i rad 1936
- Intelektualci u današnjem društvu 1936
- Povodom Kongresa Internacionalnog ženskog saveza u Dubrovniku 1936
- Publikacije Povodom kongresa Internacionalnog ženskog saveza u Dubrovniku 1936
- Slobodanu J. Jovanoviću in memoriam 1936
- Povodom smrti Tome Masarika 1937
- Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 1937
- Veličina jevrejskog naroda 1937
- Svatovi u delu Borisava Stankovića 1937
- Dr. Anka Gođevac, Amsterdam-Ankara 1937
- Beograd u pripovetkama Ljubomira P. Nenadovića 1937
- Dr. Anka Gođevac, Amsterdam-Ankara 1937
- Dr Ivan Pregelj: Osnovne crte iz književne teorije 1937
- U čast Malvine Gogić 1937
- Povodom izložbe knjiga jugoslovenskih književnica u Beogradu 1937
- Humor Žaka Konfina 1937
- Francuska i savest čovečanstva 1938
- Savremenost Hajneova 1938
- Kroz srednju školu Radoja Kneževića 1938
- Savremena žena kao književni stvaralac – Sama roman Agnese Smedley 1938
- Dole oružje – Berta Sutner, velika pobornica za mir 1938
- Da li su žene inferiorne? 1938
- Porodični život Jevreja u srednjem veku, prema engleskoj knjizi 1938
- Jedna knjiga životne mudrosti: Blago cara Radovana od Jovana Dučića 1938
- Veri Kićevac in memoriam 1938
- Razmatranja povodom bibliografije knjiga ženskih pisaca u Jugoslaviji 1939
- Kongres Međunarodne feminističke alijanse u Kopenhagenu 1939
- Jela Spiridonović Savić: Jesenje melodije 1939
- Antologija naše majke 1939
- Jela Spiridonović Savić: Pripovetke 1939
- Montenj. Kolarčev Narodni univerzitet 1939
- U čast Pavla Popovića, Povodom jubilarne knjige Priloga posvećene Pavlu Popoviću 1939
- Vera Kićevac 1939
- Socijalni momenat u našoj savremenoj pripovetci i romanu 1939
- Milica Janković 1939
- Javno mišljenje 1939
- Selma Lagerfel 1940 (1941)
- Jedna knjiga o deportaciji stanovnišva 1940
- Prikaz biblioteke „Svetski pisci“ 1940
- Srbi i Rusi 1941
- The Yugoslav women fight for freedom 1943
- The activity of Jewish womena in Yugoslavia 1943
- The democratic trends in the Yugoslav education 1943
- The national minorities in the free world 1943
- Trideset godina od smrti Jovana Skerlića 1944
- Oslobođenje Beograda 1944
- Prva žena ministar prosvete u Jugoslaviji 1944
- Jedna nova knjiga o velikom naučniku Jugoslovenu – Nikoli Tesli 1945
- Demokratske ideje Vuka St. Karadžića 1947
Reception
Reception during lifetime
- Teorija Književnosti, od Katarine Bogdanović i Pauline Lebl-Albale (1923.)
- Biblioteka „Udruženja Universitetski Obrazovanih Žena”. (1930)
- Naša žena u književnom stvaranju (1941)
Reception after death
- Voices in the Shadows: women and verbal art in Serbia and Bosnia (2000)
- The Emancipation of Women in Interwar Belgrade and the “Cvijeta Zuzorić” Society (2002)
- Jewish Writers in Serbian Literature (2003)
- Evokacija srpskog feminizma s početka 20. veka (2006)
- Paulinine uspomene (2008)
- Istorija srpske književne kritike 1768-2007 (2008)
- Albala-Lebl, Paulina (2010)
- ...kada sazremo kao kultura... Stvaralaštvo srpskih spisateljica na početku XX veka (kanon – žanr – rod) (2012)
- Francuska veza (2019)