SORE TROP

SORE TROP (1859-October 18, 1939)

            She was born in Bialystok, Russian Poland.  She graduated from the midwife course in St. Petersburg and later lived in Moscow.  She was subsequently active in the revolutionary movement in Lublin, arrested, and spent a year in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.  She moved to the United States in 1886.  She worked as a midwife.  Under the influence of information concerning Hitler’s persecutions in Poland, she wrote from her sick bed a cycle of fourteen poems which were posthumously published as Letste akordn (Final chords) (New York, 1940), 20 pp., with a biographical note by A. Yakubovitsh.  “Her poems,” wrote E. Almi, “were more than poems, more truly a heart bleeding.”  She died in New York.

Source: E. Almi, in Arbeter-shtime (New York) (February 15, 1961).

Khayim Leyb Fuks