Miriam Raskin
Belarusian-born Yiddish-language writer
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Miriam Raskin (1889 – October 18, 1973) was a Yiddish-language writer.
Biography
Raskin was born in Slonim, Belarus in 1889.[1] As a teenager, Raskin was an active member of the socialist General Jewish Labor Bund, participating in the 1905 Revolution.[2] As a result of this political activism, she was imprisoned for a year in St. Petersburg.[3] Raskin would fictionalize this experience in her 1951 novel Zlatke.[4] The book used "religious language and metaphor to express Zlatke's revolutionary fevour"[5] She also addressed her Bundist activism in her later book Tsen yor lebn, written as a series of diary entries.[6]
In 1920 Raskin emigrated to America, where she began to publish short stories in Di Tsukunft and Forverts.[1] In her later years she lived in the Shalom Aleichem Houses in the Bronx, run by the Arbeter-Ring.[7]
Bibliography
Novels:
- Tsen yor lebn: di finfte yorn. New York: Frayhayt, 1927.
- A farshpetigte libe. Serialized in Forverts from December 5, 1948.
- A lebn fun troymen. Serialized in Forverts from December 9, 1950.
- Zlatke. New York: Unzer tsayt, 1951.
- Bay a fremdn fayer. Serialized in Forverts from July 1, 1951.
- Zeyn tsveyte veyb. Serialized in Forverts from December 6, 1952.
- A yor nokh der khsunh. Serialized in Forverts from October 22, 1954.
- A farbotene libe. Serialized in Forverts from April 20, 1956.
- Di mishpokhe Epelboym. Serialized in Forverts from February 28, 1958.
- Di shenste teg fun ir lebn. Serialized in Forverts from January 29, 1960.
- A hoyz in di Bronks. Serialized in Forverts from August 17, 1962.
Short story collections:
- Shtile lebns. New York: A grupe fraynt, 1941.
Stories in English translation:
- "Zlatke" in Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers
- "At a Picnic" in Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers
- "In the Shadows" in New Yorkish: And Other American Yiddish Stories
- "No Way Out" in New Yorkish: And Other American Yiddish Stories
- "Generation of the Wilderness" in New Yorkish: And Other American Yiddish Stories
- "In the Automat" in Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The Forward
- "She Wants to be Different" in Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The Forward