HERSHL
MILER (b. May 1899)
He was born in Drobnin (Drobin),
Plotsk (Płock) district, Poland. Until age ten, he studied in religious
elementary schools, thereafter receiving a general education in a public
school. In 1913 he arrived in the United
States, where he acquainted himself with the creative works of modern Yiddish
literature and was formidably impressed by its authors. Using the name Hersh Maler, he debuted in
print in the journal Zangen (Songs)
in New York (1921), and later contributed poetry to: Der amerikaner (The American), Di
feder (The pen), Baginen (Dawn), Fraye arbeter-shtime (Free voice of
labor), Tsuzamen (Together), Yung kuznye (Young smithy), Kinder-zhurnal (Children’s magazine), Morgn-frayhayt (Morning freedom), Der tog (The day), Unzer shtime (Our voice), and Byalistoker
lebn (Bialystok life)—in New York; and Lid
(Song) in Los Angeles.
Sources:
Hemshekh-antologye (Hemshekh
anthology) (New York, 1945), pp. 201-13; Yirmye Hesheles, in Vayter (New York) (September-October
1953).
Yankev Kahan
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