ROZA GOLDSHTEYN

ROZA GOLDSHTEYN (b. ca. 1870)

            She was born in Pyriatyn, Poltava region, Ukraine.  Her first poems were published in the literary supplement to Yidishes tageblat (Jewish daily newspaper) in St. Petersburg (1888).  She also published poetry in Y. L. Peretz’s Di yudishe biblyotek (The Yiddish library), vols. 1 and 2 (Warsaw, 1891).

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; Ezra Korman, Yidishe dikhterins, antologye (Yiddish women poets, an anthology) (Chicago, 1928).