Friday 22 August 2014

REYNE OPATSHINSKI (RINA OPOCHINSKY)

REYNE OPATSHINSKI (RINA OPOCHINSKY) (b. July 19, 1896)

Born in Lutomirsk (Lutomiersk), near Lodz, Poland.  She studied in Polish school, and Yiddish with a teacher.  She emigrated to the United States after WWI.  In 1934 she published poems in the journal Shikage (Chicago), and later also in: Literarishe bleter (Literary leaves) in Warsaw and Vokhenblat (Weekly news) in New York.  In 1944 she won second prize in a competition in Tog (Day) in New York for a story she had written.  She published children’s stories in Kinder-zhurnal (Children’s journal) in New York.  She used Rina Oper as a pseudonym.  In 1951 she published the collected writings of her brother, Perets Opatshinski, together with a biography of him.

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