SONYE
TUTSHINSKI (1902-1987)
She was born in Bohuslav, Kharkov
district, Ukraine. Until age ten she
studied in a religious elementary school for girls. At age twelve she lost her father, left home,
moved to Kiev, and became a laborer in a weaving plant. During the revolution of 1917-1918, she was
active in the trade union and political movement in Kharkov. From early 1920 she was living in
Kharkov. In 1921 she began publishing
correspondence and reportage pieces on workers’ lives, and after 1925 she
published poetry as well in: Emes
(Truth) in Moscow; Shtern (Star) and Di royte velt (The red world) in
Kharkov; and Oktyabr (October) in
Minsk; among others. He authored: Veretenes (Spindles) (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian state publishers for
national minorities, 1934), 79 pp. The
main themes of her work involved labor and love. WWII interrupted his life and work; she was
confined in Transnistria. Afterward she
settled in Koziatyn, Ukraine, where lived under harsh conditions—she wrote
nothing further.
Sources:
Royte velt (Kharkov) 3 (1925); Ezra Korman,
Yidishe
dikhterins (Jewish women poets) (Chicago,
1928), pp. 315-18, 343; N. Mayzil, Dos
yidishe shafn un der yidisher shrayber in sovetnfarband (Jewish creation
and the Yiddish writer in the Soviet Union) (New York, 1959), p. 128.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 279; and Chaim Beider, Leksikon
fun yidishe shrayber in ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish
writers in the Soviet Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York:
Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc., 2011), p. 162.]
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