SHEYNDL FRANTSUZSKI-GARFINKEL (1899-November 1957)
She was
born in Bershad, Podolia, Ukraine, into a prominent family. She graduated from university in Russia. In the years of the Russian civil war, she
served as a doctor in the Red Army. In
1922 she and her husband emigrated to Canada.
She was active in Jewish cultural work and reading circles in
Montreal. She began writing in Yiddish
in the 1930s. In book form she
published: Rokhl, a novele (Rachel, a
novella), ed. Y. Y. Sigal (Montreal, 1936), 187 pp.; Erev oktober, roman in tsvey teyln (The eve of October, a novel in
two part), part 1 Odes (Odsessa) and
part 2 Kleynshtot (Provincial city)
(Montreal, 1947), 302 pp.; Aliloteha shel
tova (Tova’s exploits) (Tel Aviv: Niv, 1957), 153 pp., translated from the
Yiddish manuscript by M. Rabinovits. She
died in Montreal.
Sources: M. Sh. Shlarski, in Yorbukh (New York) (1942/1943); Y. Y. Sigal, in Keneder odler (Montreal) (March 6, 1942;
January 26, 1948); Meylekh Ravitsh, in Keneder
odler (October 2, 1952); obituary notice in Kultur un dertsiung (New York) (December 1957); Y. Rabonovitsh, in Keneder odler (November 6, 1959).
Benyomen Elis
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers
(Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 450.]
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