KHANE
(HANNAH) GERSON-RABINOVITSH (1898-1944)
She was born in Lask (Łask), near Lodz, Poland, into a wealthy Hassidic family. She received a traditional Jewish education
and thereafter studied in a high school and with private tutors. From her youth she was active in the Zionist
women’s organization “Beit Am” in Lodz.
Her first
poems, on Biblical themes, were published in Yugend (Youth) in Lodz in 1918, and they later appeared in such
serials as: Lodzher tageblat (Lodz
daily newspaper), Lodzher folksblat
(Lodz people’s newspaper), Oyfgang (Arise),
Idishe prese (Jewish press), Di yetstike tsayt (Present times), Der yidisher zhurnalist (The Jewish
journalist), and Gezangen (Song)—all in
Lodz; and Haynt (Today) and Literarishe bleter (Literary leaves) in
Warsaw. In August 1944, during the
liquidation of the Lodz ghetto, she was evacuated to Auschwitz and there
murdered.
Sources: Ezra Korman, Yidishe
dikhterins (Jewish women poets) (Chicago, 1928), pp. 109-11, 341; P. Z.
Gliksman, Ir lask veḥakhameha (The city of Lask and its sages) (Lodz, 1926), concerning
her father Yankev-Yitskhok Gerson; Kh. L. Fuks, Fun noentn over 3 (New York, 1957).
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