GITL-RIVKE KUSHELEVITSH

GITL-RIVKE KUSHELEVITSH (1891-1980)

            Born in Kretinge (Kretingalė), Lithuania, she was a rabbi’s wife and daughter of Rabbi Ben-Tsien Yankev Levitan.  She lived in Kelm (Kelmė, in Lithuania), Kovno, and from 1927 the Bronx.  She was the author of: Mitnakhtige gedanken (Reflections at midnight), poetry (New York, 1976), 132 pp.  She died in the Bronx.

Berl Cohen