Miriam Raskin (1889–October 18, 1973) was a Yiddish-language writer.
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]
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Miriam Raskin (1889–October 18, 1973) was a Yiddish-language writer.
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]
Novels:
Short story collections:
Stories in English translation: