MANYE [MARIAM] GOTENBERG

MANYE [MARIAM] GOTENBERG (b. October 19, 1919)

            She was born in Novoselits (Novoseltsa), Bessarabia.  In 1948 she graduated from middle school in Czernowitz and in 1955 from the natural science faculty of Bucharest University.  She taught in Jewish school in Romania and in Israel, having made aliya in 1969.  She wrote for Ikuf-bleter (Pages from IKUF [Jewish Cultural Association]) in Bucharest from 1948 to 1953, when this periodical closed down.  From 1982 she wrote for Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) (Tel Aviv, subsequently known as Di naye tsaytung [The new newspaper]).  She compiled and edited: Yidishe shprakh, farn tsveytn elementar-klas (The Yiddish language, for the second, elementary class) (Bucharest: State Publ., 1949), 288 pp.; Yidishe shprakh, farn fertn elementar-klas (The Yiddish language, for the fourth, elementary class) (Bucharest: State Publ., 1949), 401 pp.; Yidishe shprakh, farn fiftn elementar-klas (The Yiddish language, for the fifth, elementary class) (Bucharest: State Publ., 1950), 289 pp.; Yidishe shprakh, farn zekstn elementar-klas (The Yiddish language, for the sixth, elementary class) (Bucharest: State Publ., 1950), 585 pp.; Yidishe shprakh, farn zibetn elementar-klas (The Yiddish language, for the seventh, elementary class) (Bucharest: State Publ., 1952), 342 pp.; Yidishe shprakh, farn dritn elementar-klas (The Yiddish language, for the third, elementary class) (Bucharest: State Publ., 1955), 231 pp.; Gramatik fun yidisher shprakh farn Vtn klas (Grammar of the Yiddish language for the fifth class) (Bucharest: State Publ., 1958), 239 pp.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 124-25.