BRAYNDL BOYM (BRANDEL BAUM) (1896-September 22, 1946)
Born in Mazovyetsk, Poland, she received a strict religious
education, but against the will of her parents she entered a Russian high
school. She became a teacher in 1919 in a
Polish public school in Petrikov. After
marrying in 1922, she settled in Lodz, where she was active in women’s circles
of “Agudat Yisrael” (Agudas Yisroel) and in
philanthropic institutions. She began
writing Russian and Polish poetry for the local newspapers. Later, she moved to Yiddish and published
poems and articles in Der yud (The Jew) and Dos yidishe togblat
(Jewish daily news) in Warsaw, and in publications of the Beys-yankev schools,
among others. In 1925 she moved to
Palestine and began writing in Hebrew and publishing in Bat yisrael
(Daughter of Israel), Baderekh (On the road), and other serials. Among her books: Ketavim levat yisrael
(Writings for a daughter of Israel) (Tel Aviv, 1954), 144 pp. She died in Tel Aviv.
Source:
D. Tidhar, Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of
the founders and builders of Israel), vol. 4 (Tel Aviv, 1950), pp. 1869-1870.
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