MALKE
LISAK (1900-1965)
She was born in Krashnevits (?),
Poland. She attended a Polish
school. From her youth she was
interested in literature. At age eleven
she composed a play in Polish. In 1915
she wrote a drama in Yiddish: Ayngefalene
vent (Fallen walls). Years later she
traveled in Europe and lived for a time in Switzerland. In 1921 she moved to Soviet Russia, settled
in Moscow, and continued her writing there.
In book form: Velt-vinkl, a
dray-akter (World-corner, a three act play), published together with two
stories, “Afn roytn plats” (At a red plaza) and “A vakh-budke” (A sentry box)
(Moscow, 1923), 32 pp.; Stratonavtn (Stratosphere
fliers) (Moscow, 1935), 63 pp. She also
published stories in the journal Yungvald
(Young forest) in 1925 and in the anthology Sovetish
(Soviet) in Moscow in 1935.
Sources:
Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Handbook of the Yiddish
theater), vol. 2 (New York, 1934); Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot,
1917-1961 (Jewish publications in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem,
1961), see index.
Benyomen Elis
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 336; 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), pp. 207-8.]
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