Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur

לעקסיקאָן פֿון דער נײַער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור

Born Yente Roytman in 1922.  Grew up in Zguritse, Bessarabia (Zgurita, later Moldova).  Jewish and secular education.  Trained and worked as a teacher.  Exiled to Siberian "special settlement," 1941; imprisoned there until 1947. 

Settled in Kishinev (Chisinau) 1948.  Worked as a bookkeeper and participated in Jewish literary circle.  Immigrated to Ashdod, Israel, in 1977. 

Active in Leyvik House literary center in Tel Aviv and the Association for Yiddish writers and Journalists in Israel. 

Published in

Di Goldene Keyt  (The Golden Chain),

Letste Nayes (Latest News),

Yerushalmer Almanakh (Jerusalem Almanac),

Naye Tsaytung (New Newspaper),

Toplpunkt (Colon, a literary quarterly),

Vortbild (Word Picture), and

Yisroel Shtime (Israel Voice)

— in Israel, and

in Afn Shvel (On the Threshold),

Tsukunft (Future),

Yidishe Kultur (Yiddish Culture), and

Forverts (Forward)

— in the U.S.

Received the Hersh Segal Prize (1994), the Itsik Manger Prize (1999) and the Dovid Hofshteyn Prize (2002).

Published four volumes of collected work:

Tif in der Tayge (Deep in the Taiga), Tel Aviv: Farlag Yisroel Bukh, 1990; 

Meshane Mokem (A Change of Place), Tel Aviv: Farlag I.L. Peretz, 1993;

Besaraber Motivn (Bessarabian Themes), Tel Aviv: Farlag I.L. Peretz, 1998; and

Mit der Letster Hakofe (The Last Time Around), Tel Aviv: H. Leyvik Farlag, 2007.  

Died in Haifa, Israel, in 2013.

An English translation of 16 of her stories was published in 2018 by Northern Illinois University Press as On the Landing, translation by Ellen Cassedy, with an afterword co-authored by Jessica Kirzane.