SORE SHABES (SARA SHABATH)

SORE SHABES (SARA SHABATH) (b. March 6, 1913)

            She was born in Nesvizh (Nesvyžius), Byelorussia.  She graduated from a Hebrew high school.  In 1934 she made aliya to the land of Israel.  She lived in Kibbutz Ramat Yonatan and from 1940 in Kibbutz Bet-Alfa.  From 1979 she published poems in Yisroel-shtime (Voice of Israel) in Tel Aviv and Melburner bleter (Melbourne pages).  In book form: Fun heym tsu heym, lider (From home to home, poetry) (Tel Aviv: Yisroel-bukh, 1981), 94 pp.; Tsvishn zun un shotn (Between sun and shadow) (Tel Aviv: Yisroel-bukh, 1983), 110 pp.; Vi a feder in vint, lider (Like a feather in the wind, poetry) (Tel Aviv: Yisroel-bukh, 1985), 112 pp.

Source: Mordekhai Ḥalamish, in Yisroel-shtime (Tel Aviv) (November 14, 1979).

Ruvn Goldberg

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 517, 554.