Landman, Manye I.
May 2, 1920-May 22, 2018
She was an essayist and memoirist, born in Bershad, Ukraine, and from there she moved with her mother to Moscow. There she graduated from a Jewish school, and in the early 1930s she worked as a typist for the newspaper and publisher Der Emes (The Truth). She was later part of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and on the editorial board of its newspaper Eynikeyt (Unity). The last position she held before the pogrom against Yiddish literature in the late 1940s was on the editorial board of the almanac Heymland (Homeland).
She then returned to her Yiddish typewriter in the early 1960s when the journal Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland) in Moscow started to appear in print. For the latter she also published essays and, since 1976, memoirs of Moyshe Litvakov, Perets Markish, Dovid Bergelson, Shmuel Halkin, Itzik Fefer, Leyb Kvitko, Eli Falkovitsh, Der Nister, Shike Driz, Zalmen Vendrof, Motl Grubyan, Arn Vergelis, Avrom Gontar, and Mishe Lev.
From 1993 she was living in the city of Detroit, Michigan in the United States (2011).
Her writings include:
Tsvishn Yidishe Shrayber, Zikhroynes fun a Mashinistke (Among Yiddish Writers, Memoirs of a Typist), supplement to Sovetish Heymland 3 (1982), 61 pp.
Contributed her memiors to Ineynem: Proze-Zamlung (Altogether: Prose Collection). - Moskve: Sovetski Pisatel, 1988, 524, [4] pp., photo, portr. Collected by, and with an introduction by Moyshe Volf. Chapter by Landman, Manye p. 439-521.
Writers mentioned in her above memoirs include: Arn Vergelis, Motl Grubyan, Elye Falkovitsh, Avrom Gontar. Also, Dovid Hofshteyn, Arn Kushnirov, Mishe Lev, Dovid Hofshteyn, and Arn Kushnirov.
Source: Sovetish Heymland, ed., Materyaln far a Leksikon fun der Yidisher Sovetisher Literatur (publ. by Sovetish Heymland from September 1975).