MIRIAM KRANT

MIRIAM KRANT (b. 1918)

            She was born in Fabyanits (Fabianetz), Poland.  She arrived in Montreal in 1922.  She graduated from a Jewish middle school and higher courses of study, and she went on to study at the Université de Montréal.  She worked as a teacher.  She published literary articles, poems, stories, and children’s tales in: Shriftn (Writings), edited by Abe Gordin; Kinder tsaytung (Children’s newspaper); the monthly Dorem (South) and Di prese (The press) in Buenos Aires; Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor), Oyfsnay (Afresh), and Afn shvel (At the threshold)—in New York; Keneder odler (Canadian eagle) and Montreoler heftn (Montreal notebooks) in Montreal; Der veker (The alarm); and Folks-shtime (Voice of the people) in Poland.  Until 1955 she wrote under the name Miriam Vaynberg.  She was last living in Montreal.

Khayim Leyb Fuks

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 491.]