LEYE RUDNITSKI (b. 1913)
She was
a poet, born in Kalvarye (Kalvarija),
Lithuania. In 1931 she graduated from a
Hebrew high school in Mariampol, Lithuania.
She worked with a bookkeeper in Vilkomir (Ukmergė) and
from 1934 in Kovno. In 1940 she moved to
Vilna. In September 1943 she was
deported from the Vilna ghetto to a concentration camp in Estonia and died
there. She published poetry in: Folksblat (People’s newspaper); the
anthologies, Brikn (Bridges, 1937), Bleter (Sheets, 1938, 1940), and Naye bleter (New sheets, 1939); the
newspaper Emes (Truth)—all in Kovno;
as well as in Vilner emes (Vilna
truth) (1940) and Noyekh Prilucki’s anthology Untervegns (Pathways) (Vilna, 1940). In the ghetto she wrote a booklet of poems Durkh neplen (Through fog), only a small
portion of which was published. Several
of her salvaged poems were published in Shmerke Katsherginski’s Dos gezang fun vilner geto (Songs from the Vilna ghetto)
(Paris, 1947) and in Di goldene keyt
(The golden chain) (Tel Aviv).
Sources: Information from Yankl Yosade in Vilna; Di goldene keyt (Tel Aviv) 6 (1950).
Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 506.
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