PERL
VOLFINGER (b. 1896)
She was born Feyge-Rokhl Brantvayn in Zamość, Poland,
into a middle-class family. She
graduated from a Russian public school.
Over the years 1920-1926, she was living in Warsaw, later returning to Zamość,
and there she became a laborer. She
began publishing poems in the anthology Ringen
(Links) (Warsaw, 1920). She contributed
to Dos folk (The people) and other
literary publications. She brought out
two pamphlets of eccentric, erotic poetry: Ikh
(I) 1 (Warsaw, 1922), 32 pp.; 2 (Zamość, 1923), 35 pp. Her first poems attracted the attention of
the critics, but she soon thereafter became completely silent.
Sources:
Hillel Tsaytlin, in Moment (Warsaw)
(July 2, 1922); Ezra Korman, Yidishe dikhterins
(Jewish women poets) (Chicago, 1928), pp. 208-11, 342; B. Kutsher, Geven
amol varshe (As Warsaw once was) (Paris, 1955), p. 182.
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