ANNA BLOKH (b. 1901)
She was born in Mir, Minsk district, and studied with a
teacher to learn to write Yiddish, as well as a little Hebrew, and later she
attended a Russian public school. She
was early on orphaned and worked as a tailor.
In 1913 she moved with her mother to London where she had an uncle, and
there she worked in a tailor’s shop. In
1915 she made her way to Cape Town, South Africa, and in 1918 she settled in
Johannesburg. In 1921 she published a
short book of poems entitled Poezye fun a litvisher meydl in afrika
(Poetry by a Lithuanian young woman in Africa).
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; Ezra Korman, Yidishe dikhterins,
antologye (Yiddish women poets, an anthology) (Chicago, 1928), pp. 131-32,
339-40.
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