YEHUDIS (YUDES) BLUMENTAL-MAYZIL (July 31, 1894-April 19, 1943)
Born in Borshchov (Borshchiv), eastern Galicia, she was a
Hebrew teacher there. Before WWII, she
ran an English course in the Jewish teachers’ association in Warsaw. Together with her husband, Yankev Mayzil, she
translated from Hebrew Gnesin’s Etsel (Close by) as Froym margolis (Ephraim
Margolis) (Vilna: Kletskin, 1925), 167 pp.; and from German Knut Hamsun’s Konerne ved vandposten (Women
at the tap) as Di vayber baym brunem (Women at the pump) (Vilna:
Kletskin, 1929), 536 pp. Over the years
1939-1941, under Soviet rule, she was a teacher of Yiddish in the Borshchov
middle school. She died on the eve of
Passover, April 19, 1943, in the Borshchov ghetto.
Source:
Lerer-zikher-bukh (Teachers’
memory book) (New York, 1954).
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