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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