MANYE LIFSHITS (LIPSHITS)

MANYE LIFSHITS (LIPSHITS) (b. 1906)

           She was born in Sokolke (Sokółka), Poland.  She lived from 1912 until 1920 in Bialystok, thereafter in Minsk, where she was taken in by a children’s home.  Until 1926 she lived in Vitebsk and studied at the local Jewish pedagogical technicum.  In 1926 she moved to Montreal and later to Toronto, where she was a teacher in schools run by the Jewish People’s Order.  In 1956 she broke with the left wing.  She began writing for a children’s magazine Komunar (Communard) in Vitebsk (1922).  She also published under her maiden name, Margole Kantorovitsh.  In book form: Bletlekh fun a shturmisher tsayt (Pages from a violent time) (Toronto, 1977), 176 pp.[1]

Source: Khayim Leyb Fuks, Hundert yor yidishe un hebreishe literatur in kanade (A century of Yiddish and Hebrew literature in Canada) (Montreal, 1980).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 340.

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[1] Translator’s note. There is an English translation by Max Rosenfeld and Marcia Usishkin, Time Remembered: A Jewish Children’s Commune in the Soviet Union in the 1920s (Toronto: Lugus, 1991), 143 pp.