Tsyanson, Nekhame
1868–
She was born in Vilna. At age fourteen, she graduated from a six-level pre-high school. After marrying, she settled in Lide (Lida), and there her husband owned a printshop. Around 1901 she returned to Vilna. She became ill and had to have a foot amputated. She was left a widow, lonely, and with no means of support.
She published the following booklets: A Hoyzartst, oder Mitlen Gezund Und Freylekh tsu zayn (Family Physician, or Ways to Be Healthy and Happy), selected from German medical books (1896); Di Amerikaner, Zeyer Land un Zeyer Art Lebn (The Americans, Their Land and Their Way of Life) (Vilna, 1904), 16 pp.; Di Yapaner, Zeyer Land un Zeyer Lebn (The Japanese, Their Land and Their Life) (1905), 16 pp.; Di Bukhdrukeray Und Ihr Erfinder (The Book Publisher and its Invention) (1912); Romeo un Dzhuleta in der Yidisher Geto oder Ver Vet Shoyfer Blozn (Romeo and Juliet in the Jewish Ghetto or Who Will Blow the Shofar) (Vilna, 1922), 30 pp.; Vohin Zol Ikh Geyn (Where Should I Go), an image from the year 1905 (1925).
The majority of her translations or adaptations were composed in a poor, overly Germanized Yiddish. She also wrote features for Vilna’s Yidishe Tsaytung (Jewish Newspaper). Further information remains unknown.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3.