ESTHER VEVYORKE
She was the wife of Avrom Vevyorke and the sister of the Soviet Yiddish writer Noyekh Lurye. She translated from German into Yiddish: In shotn fun elektrishn shtul (In the shadow of the electric chair [original: Im Schatten des elektrischen Stuhls]) by Hermynia Zur Mühlen (Kiev, 1932), 62 pp., and carried on other literary work in Riga. Her fate after 1948 remains unknown.
Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 249.
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