HADASE HIRSHOVITS-LEVIN (1912-December 12, 1947)
She was born in Kovno, Lithuania. Her father Yoysef-Leyb Hirshovits was a
Mizrachi leader and author of the religious text Haeshkol (The cluster). From
her youth she was educated in both Jewish and generation knowledge, and after graduating
high school she took a teacher’s course of study at Kovno University and became
a teacher in Hebrew schools. She was
popular in Kovno for her devotion to Orthodox education which was concentrated
in the Bays-Yankev schools. Following
the outbreak of WWII, she spent six years in the ghetto and forests. While still quite young, she published
articles, stories, and poems in Yiddish in the Orthodox press. The majority, though, she wrote in Hebrew,
using the pen name “Bat ami” (daughter of my people). On her death bed, in the Jewish hospital in
Munich, she completed a Hebrew book which described the downfall of Jews in the
Zhamet region of Lithuania. Her poem “Dos
shnidl perl” (The string of pearls) was translated from Hebrew by Dovid Volpe
and published in Undzer veg (Our way)
(December 12, 1947) in Munich.
Source:
Y. Kaplan, in Undzer veg (Munich)
(December 12, 1947).
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