Template:Did you know nominations/Frida Alexandr

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:32, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Frida Alexandr

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• ... that the 1967 book Filipson by Frida Alexandr is the only first-hand description of life in that early 20th-century Brazilian Jewish farming colony written by a woman who lived there? Source: "Frida Alexandr (born Frida Schweidson) is the only woman writer to describe those Jewish cowboys from the viewpoint of one who lived among them" (Jewish Women's Archive)

• ALT1: ... that Frida Alexandr began writing her memoirs of growing up in a Brazilian Jewish farming colony in Rio Grande do Sul 20 years after she had left it, and finished the book 20 years later? Source: "the process, which took twenty years to complete, culminated in the publication of Filipson in 1967, some forty years after the author had left the colony" ([1])
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Katharine Fuge
• Comment: Created for Women in Red Women writers editathon

Created by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 00:11, 9 December 2016 (UTC).

• Article length and age are good, no problems with copyvio or plagiarism, and otherwise follows policy. First hook okay and the most interesting. The second hook is too long. QPQ done. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥♥ 20:57, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for the review. I've struck the second hook. Yoninah (talk) 21:52, 13 December 2016 (UTC)