RAY RASKIN (b. May 15, 1888)
The wife
of Shoyel Raskin, she was born in Odessa.
She was educated in a Russian high school, later in Germany, France, and
from 1905 in the United States. In 1912
she debuted in print with a poem in Avrom Reyzen’s Dos naye land (The new country) under her maiden name of Rivke
Rozental. She contributed stories and
articles to: Idisher kemfer (Jewish
fighter), Fraye arbeter shtime (Free
voice of labor), Di naye velt (The
new world) on music and drama, the daily newspaper Di tsayt (The times), Teolit
(Theater-literature), Tsukunft
(Future), and from time to time Forverts
(Forward). From 1915, with an interruption
of two years, she was a regular contributor to Tog (Day). She wrote there
on theater, film, and music—and under the pen name Ray Malis, on fashion and topics
of interest to women. Her work appears
in Ezra Korman’s Yidishe dikhterins,
antologye (Female Yiddish poets, anthology) (Chicago: L. M. Shteyn, 1928),
under the name Rivke Rozental. She also
penned a drama entitled Motls tsaytn which
was published in New York in 1935, 70 pp.
She died in New York.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
Berl Cohen
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers
(Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 502.]
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