LINA
EDELBERG-RASKIN (b. August 15, 1892)
She was born in Libave (Liepāja),
Courland. She received a religious
education. In her youth she joined the
Bund. In 1910 she moved to the United
States. She debuted in print with a poem
in Fraye arbeter-shtime (Free voice
of labor) in New York (1920). She also
published poetry in Amerikaner
(American) in New York and Idishe
tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) in Los Angeles.
Her poems appeared in English translation in Floridian, an Anglophone weekly newspaper in Miami Beach,
Florida. In book form: Lider (Poems) (New York, 1959), 108
pp. She was last living in Brooklyn, New
York.
Benyomen Elis
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