ITE
PUPKO (1894-November 5, 1960)
She was born in Gantshesh (Gănești?),
Bessarabia. She completed a degree as a
pharmacist in Odessa and Kiev Universities.
Until 1923 she lived in Odessa, Kishinev, and for a time Czernowitz,
before immigrating to Canada. After the
tragic death of her only son, she moved to New York and lived there until late
1951. She published in: Keneder odler (Canadian eagle) in
Montreal; Der yudisher zhurnal (The
Jewish journal) in Toronto; Dos idishe
vort (The Yiddish word) in Winnipeg; Nay-yidish
(New Yiddish), Di feder (The pen), Fraye arbeter-shtime (Free voice of
labor), and Yidishe shriftn (Yiddish
writings), among others, in New York; and Letste
nayes (Latest news) and Heymish
(Familiar) in Tel Aviv. In book form: Mayn nign fun libshaft un troyer, lider un
poemen (My song of love and sadness, poetry) (New York, 1951), 111 pp. In late 1951 she settled in Israel and lived
in Kiryat Shaul, and there she died.
Sources:
B. Daymondhsteyn, Eseyen (Essays)
(Tohongo, California, 1958), pp. 34-35; Meylekh Ravitsh, Mayn leksikon (My lexicon), vol. 3 (Montreal, 1958), p. 484; Y.
Paner, Almanakh fun yidishe shrayber in
yisroel (Almanac of Yiddish writers in Israel) (Tel Aviv, 1962), p. 375.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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