Ulla Wolff

Ulla Hirschfeld was born in Gleiwitz, Silesia, into a scholarly Jewish family. Her father, Hirsch (Max) Hirschfeld, was a rabbi and philosopher of religion, while her maternal grandfather, Solomon Eger, served as Chief Rabbi of Posen. She received her education at home and later in Breslau and Vienna. In 1869, she married Rabbi Dr. Lazar Frankfurter, an Italian language and literature professor, with whom she bore three children, including . She took up residence in Berlin soon after her husband's death in 1878 and married Jewish industrialist Louis Wolff in 1880. She would have two more children from her second marriage. She died on 1 January 1924 at the age of 74. ==Work==

Wolff-Frankfurter's first production, Ein Vampyr, appeared in 1876 at the in Breslau, and was well received. This was followed in 1878 by Der Herr College. Thereupon, she gave up writing for the stage and devoted her literary activity to stories and novels. Her publications often explored the tension between tradition and modernity in the Jewish family, and the isolated experiences of ghetto and shtetl life. As a journalist, she headed the Berlin feature section of the Hamburgischer Correpondent newspaper for over 15 years, and wrote for other newspapers and magazines, especially for the Berliner Tageblatt, the Jahrbuch für jüdische Geschichte und Literatur, the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, and the Breslauer Zeitung. She was also the Berlin correspondent of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung. ==Partial bibliography==

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