GITL TSITRIN (CITRIN)

GITL TSITRIN (CITRIN) (b. April 1, 1893)

            She was born in Opole, Poland, and graduated from a public school.  In 1913 he came to the United States, where she attended high school.  She published poetry in: Feder (Pen), Nyu Yorker vokhnblat (New York weekly newspaper), Tog (Day), Zayn (Being), and Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor), among others, in New York.  Her work also appeared in Mortkhe Yofe’s Erets yisroel in der yidisher literatur (The land of Israel in Yiddish literature) (Tel Aviv, 1961).  She worked with the secular Jewish schools.  In book form: Blumen far perlen (Flowers for Perl), poetry (New York, 1966), 192 pp.  This book was dedication to the memory of the untimely death of poetess’s daughter Perl.  At the end of the volume is an assessment by Sh. Grinshpan.  She also published musical compositions to eight of the poems.  She was last living in Brooklyn, New York.

Source: Sh. Grinshpan, Oyfsnay (New York) (spring 1958).