Penina moise biography channel

Born 23 April 1797, Charleston, South Carolina; died 13 September 1880, Charleston, South CarolinaDaughter of Abraham and Sarah Moise

Penina Moise was the sixth of nine children of parents who had fled to Charleston during the slave insurrections in Santo Domingo. The death of Moise's father forced her to abandon formal education and help support the family by needlework, but she nevertheless continued to study and write, publishing poems and stories in newspapers and periodicals.

Devoutly religious, Moise served as superintendent of the religious school of Beth Elohim beginning in 1842. After the Civil War, although ill and nearly blind, Moise founded a school for girls and conducted literary salons.

Fancy's Sketch Book (1833) was probably the first published book to which a Jewish woman appended her full name.

Primarily a volume of verse, it includes light satires, epigrams, lyrics, and occasional poems commemorating prominent events. Conventional themes Moise, Penina - LIBU