SORE BIRNBOYM (SARA BIRNBAUM)

SORE BIRNBOYM (SARA BIRNBAUM) (1910-1978)

     She was born in Lodz, though from her early childhood year she was living with her parents in Warsaw.  Her first published work appeared in 1928, a poem in Unzer hofenung (Our hope), edited by Y. M. Vaysenberg (Weissenberg).  She later published in: Folkstsaytung (People’s newspaper), Vokhnshrift (Weekly writing), and Dos vort (The word) in Warsaw; and Kinder-zhurnal (Children’s journal) in New York.  In 1937 she emigrated to Argentina.  There she published in Di prese (The press), Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper), and Shpigl (Mirror).  Among her books: Zing ikh mir (I sing to myself), poems (Buenos Aires, 1938), 56 pp.; Gezang un shturem (Song and storm), poems (Buenos Aires, 1950), 94 pp.; Far zun oyfgang (Before sunrise), poetry (Buenos Aires, 1962), 83 pp.  She was living in Buenos Aires where she died.

Sources: Antologye fun der yidisher literatur in argentine (Anthology of Yiddish literature in Argentina) (Buenos Aires, 1944), pp. 81-82; Y. Botoshanski, Mame-yidish (Mother Yiddish) (Buenos Aires, 1949), pp. 266-67; Sh. Rozhanski, Dos yidishe gedrukte vort in argentine (The published Yiddish word in Argentina) (Buenos Aires, 1941), pp. 140, 170-71.

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 86.]