Person

Ṿaserman, Lyube

1907–1975

Jiddische Dichterin, lebte 1931-1934 in Palästina, später überwiegend in Birobidschan.

born in the shtetl Slovatitsh, in Poland, Lyube Vaserman, comes from a poor family, she was self taught. In 1925 she went to Israel where she worked in a kibbutz. She began writing at the age of 15," lider fun a dinstmeydl", in 1931 she published in Tel-Aviv her first volume of poetry:"Farnakhtn". Her poems were also published in several journals, among them "Literarishe bleter", "Nay lebn" and "Amerikaner froyen-zshurnal." In 1934 she migrated to Birobidzhan in the Soviet Union, where she worked for radio, published poetry, short stories and sketches. She was arrested in 1950 and detained in a lager in Kazakhstan.