GITL HEYBLUM-FALLER

GITL HEYBLUM-FALLER (b. March 8, 1885)

            She was born in Lukov (Maciejów), Shedlets (Siedlce) region, Poland.  She received a traditional Jewish education, and studied languages and secular subject matter with private tutors.  From 1912 she was living in New York, where at first she worked in the administration of Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal) and at the same time studied the humanities.  She was active for a long time in the Sholem-Aleichem schools.  She debuted in print in 1913 with translations from Polish and Russia fiction, as well as short novellas and sketches from English, in: Morgn-zhurnal and Der amerikaner (The American)—in New York.  Subsequently, over the course of years, she published her own stories, sketches, and tales, among them the humorous series “Mayne khasanim” (My husbands).  She ran a section in Der amerikaner entitled “Fun a froy tsu froyen” (From a woman to women).  She also contributed stories to Kinder-zhurnal (Children’s journal) and Tog (Day) in New York, and to Dos naye vort (The new word) in Boston, among other serials.  She was last living in New York.

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3 (under “Faller-Heyblum”).