KHANE
(HANNAH) VURTSEL (b. 1872)
She was born in Šakiai,
near Kovno, Lithuania, into an observant religious family. In 1902 she moved to the United States and
until 1935 worked in New York. She
published poems of a sentimental character on motifs of love and home, as well
as humorous poetry, in such venues as Forverts
(Forward), Tageblat (Daily
newspaper), and Morgn-zhurnal
(Morning journal)—in New York. In book
form she published a collection of her previously published works, entitled Hundert lider (One hundred poems) (New
York, 1927), 126 pp. In 1935 she settled
in the southern states. Further details
remain unknown.
Sources:
Ezra Korman, Yidishe
dikhterins (Jewish women poets) (Chicago, 1928); Biblyografishe yorbikher fun yivo
(Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928), p. 346.
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