ESTER ZUSMAN

ESTER ZUSMAN (b. 1898)

            She was born in a town near Brisk (Brest), Lithuania, in Polesia.  During WWI she was expelled from her home deep into Russia, and she returned from there after the Revolution of 1917 and worked as a teacher in secular Jewish schools in various towns.  She published sketches and stories in the Yiddish provincial press.  In book form: Der kholem fun a froy, roman (A woman’s dream, a novel) (Warsaw, 1937), 264 pp., in which in a semi-autobiographical form she described the lives of Jewish women in Poland and Lithuania.  She was also the author of stories for children: Tsvey khavertes (Two girlfriends) (Warsaw, 1938), 19 pp.  She was in Warsaw when WWII erupted.  Subsequent information about her fate remains unknown.

Sources: Sh. Zaromb, in Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (July 10, 1937); Avrom Reyzen, in Di feder (New York) (1937); M. Ts. (Tsanin), in Bikher-nayes (Warsaw) (September-October 1938).