Rajzel Żychlińsky
Rajzel Żychlińsky | |
|---|---|
| Born | Rajzla Żychlińska July 27, 1910 |
| Died | June 13, 2001 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Citizenship | Poland, United States |
| Education | City College of New York |
| Notable works | God Hid His Face: Selected Poems |
| Notable awards | Itzik Manger Prize (1975) |
| Spouse |
Dr. Isaac Kanter
(m. 1941; died 1990) |
| Children | Marek Kanter, Ph.D. |
Rajzel Żychlińsky (July 27, 1910 – June 13, 2001) was a Polish-born writer of poetry in Yiddish. She published seven collections over six decades. Her first two collections were published in Warsaw, Poland in 1936 and 1939, just prior to World War II. She survived the war by fleeing eastward to the Soviet Union, but many members of her immediate family were murdered in the Holocaust. Her postwar poetry, mostly written in the United States, was strongly influenced by these events.