BREYNE BERKOVITSH (August 13, 1894-April 27, 1956)
She was born in Kherson, Ukraine. After graduating from a Russian teachers’ seminary,
she taught Russian in religious elementary schools, evening schools, and Saturday
schools for working girls. In 1920 she performed
cultural-political work at the Soviet-Polish front. In 1926 she emigrated to Canada. She wrote in Russian from her earliest
years. Her first published work appeared
in 1926, an article in Kamf (Struggle) in Toronto. From that time on, she published feature
pieces and memoirs in Keneder odler (Canadian eagle), and she also
contributed to Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor), Tog
(Day), and Tsukunft (Future). On
1947 she received the Tsukunft prize for her story: “Der khersoner rebe,
r’ ben tsiyen” (The Kherson rebbe, R. Ben Zion).
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