Rachel Boymvol, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rachel Boymvol

Israeli poet

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1914

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 16-Jun-2000

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Rachel Boymvol

  • Rachel Boymvol, sometimes spelled Baumvoll or Baumwoll (Russian: ?????? ????????, Hebrew: ??? ????????) (March 4, 1914, Odessa - June 16, 2000, Jerusalem) was a poet and translator who wrote in both Yiddish and Russian. Rachel Boymvol was the daughter of Judah-Leib Boimvol, 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 and would give us a country that would be called Yidland.
  • In my head was a confusion that would last many years..."During World War II, she went with her family to Tashkent.
  • After the war she settled in Moscow, where she wrote poems, children's songs, and stories as well as translating from Yiddish to Russian.
  • In 1971 she was able to emigrate to Israel, and settled with her family in Jerusalem.

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