JENNY RATNER-BERKOVITSH (b. 1881)
She was
a poetess, born in Dvinsk (Dinaburg, Daugavpils),
Latvia. She was orphaned at age
nine. She worked in a factory. In 1895 she came to New York and in 1901 to
Denver, Colorado. She was active in the
labor movement. She was writing poems
twenty years before she first published any in Der amerikaner (The American) in 1921. She later published poetry and stories in: Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of
labor), Veker (Alarm), Frayhayt (Freedom), Kalifornyer yidishe shtime (Jewish voice of California), and other serials. In her youth she published articles from time
to time in: Abend-blatt (Evening
newspaper), Forverts (Forward), and Fraye arbeter shtime. Her work also appeared in Nakhmen Mayzil’s Amerike in yidishn vort (America in the
Yiddish word) (New York, 1955).
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
Berl Cohen
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