KHAYE-ROKHL
ANDRES (b. May 1, 1899)
Born in Suwalki, Poland, she
attended religious elementary school.
She graduated from a Russian public school. In 1922 she emigrated to Dallas, Texas. She frequently published poetry in Vokhnblat (Weekly newspaper) in Toronto,
Zamlungen (Collections) in New York, and
Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper)
in Tel Aviv. Among her books: Mayn tatns yerushe, lider (My father’s
heritage, poems) (Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1972), 185 pp., including twenty Hebrew
poems translated by E. Zametski; Far
vemen zing ikh mayne lider (For whom do I sing my songs) (New York, 1979),
267 pp.; Zaynen yorn geforn, mayn lebns
geshikhte (Year gone by, my life story) (Brooklyn, 1981), 194 pp. The latter two books with English translation
by Yudel Cohen.
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