Boymvol, Rochel. Bertshik Brud.

(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE).

Meluhe-Ferlag fun Veisrusland, Nazsecter

Minsk

1936

Illustrated.

Rochel Boymvol (1914-2000) was the daughter of Judah-Leib Boymvol, a theater manager and director who was murdered in a pogrom in 1920 while touring with his Jewish company. Rachel grew up in a culture fluent in both Yiddish and Russian. Her first poems, in Yiddish, were published in a Komsomol magazine when she was nine years old. She later wrote, “The Bolsheviks saved me from death, and I was a fervent Bolshevik. I drew five-cornered stars, but also six-cornered, Jewish ones, because the Bolsheviks loved Jews. In my head was a confusion that would last many years. Boymvol died in Jerusalem. (Wikipedia.)