LEYE BENSON-RINK

LEYE BENSON-RINK (ca. 1892-March 12, 1974)

            She was born in Telz (Telšiai), Lithuania.  In the 1920s she emigrated to Cape Town.  From 1931 she was living in Ladybrand, South Africa.  Among her books: Eybik geyt dir nokh mayn lid (You always imitate my poem), on the death of her husband (Cape Town: Kinder, 1960), 54 pp.; Amol un haynt, dertseylungen (Then and now, stories) (Cape Town: Kinder, 1960), 87 pp.; Oysgetunkt in trern (Drowned in tears), poems at the graveside of a son (Cape Town, 1963), 87 pp.  She died in Johannesburg.

Sources: Elimeylekh (D. Volpe), in Dorem-afrike (Johannesburg) (July-August 1960); B. Levinski, in Dorem-afrike (May-June 1965); B. Orenshteyn, in Keneder odler (Montreal) (March 29, 1967); Z. Plung (Z. Levi), in Dorem-afrike (July-August 1967).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 98-99.