NEKHAME
YANITSH (NECHAMA YANICH) (b. May 15, 1898)
She was born in Navaredok
(Novogrudok), Poland. In 1914 she moved
to Glasgow, Great Britain. For several
years she lived in London, and in 1920 she settled in Detroit. She worked there as a teacher of languages
and of Tanakh. In 1956 she moved to
Florida, and in 1970 she made aliya to Israel.
From time to time, she published poems in a popular style in: Tog (Day), Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal), Forverts (Forward), and Idisher
kemfer (Jew fighter)—in New York. In
book form: Mayn veltl (My little
world) (Jerusalem, 1973), 111 pp. Her
poem “Mayn tfile” (My prayer) became very popular through Sidor Belarsky’s
singing. She was last living in
Jerusalem.
Source:
Reported by Yanitsh’s daughter, Hadasah Plaut in Jerusalem.
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 294.
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