MIRIAM KNAPHAYS

MIRIAM KNAPHAYS (b. June 12, 1898)

            She was born in Bogopol, Russian empire (now, Ukraine).  She graduated from a Russian high school in Golta (Russia) and the medical faculty in Rostov.  In 1924 she was repatriated to Warsaw.  At the beginning of WWII, she fled to Bialystok, and from there she was deported by Soviet authorities to Arkhangelsk.  She later returned to Poland, and in 1948 emigrated to Winnipeg; in 1967 she made aliya to the state of Israel.  She wrote for Dos yidishe vort (The Yiddish word) in Winnipeg and Ilustrirte literarishe bleter (Illustrated literary leaves) in Buenos Aires.  In book form: A tfile in der nakht, lider (A prayer in the night, poetry) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1979), 132 pp.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 488.