SORE BARKAN

SORE BARKAN (1884-December 15, 1957)

            She was born in Dvinsk (Daugavpils), Latvia, and came to the United States in 1907.  In 1911 she published her first poems in Forverts (Forward) in New York.  She later published children’s poetry, stories, and one-act plays in Frayhayt (Freedom), Hamer (Hammer), and other leftist publications.  She was a member of the Communist Party.  Her work was included in Haynttsaytike proletarishe dikhtung in amerike (Contemporary proletarian poetry in America) (Minsk, 1931).  In book form: Gutfriling: lider, baladn un mayses (Springtime: Poems, ballads, and stories) (New York, 1936), 126 pp.; Matones (Gifts), songs and ballads (Maplewood, N.J., 1946), 215 pp.; Vegn zikh un aykh (About me and you), stories (Maplewood, N.J.,1949), 143 .; Mayses un lider fun ale teg (Stories and songs for every day) (New York: IKUF, 1956), 160 pp.  She died in New York.

Source: A. Pomerants, Proletpen (Proletarian pen) (Kiev, 1935), p. 196.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 60.