Miriam Raskin (1889–October 18, 1973) was a Yiddish-language writer.
Biography
Raskin was born in Slonim, Belarus in 1889.[1] As a teenager, Raskin was an active member of the socialist General Jewish Labor Bund, participating in the 1905 Revolution.[2] As a result of this political activism, she was imprisoned for a year in St. Petersburg.[3] Raskin would fictionalize this experience in her 1951 novel Zlatke.[4] The book used “religious language and metaphor to express Zlatke’s revolutionary fevour”[5] She also addressed her Bundist activism in her later book Tsen yor lebn, written as a series of diary entries.[6]
In 1920 Raskin emigrated to America, where she began to publish short stories in Di Tsukunft and Forverts.[1] In her later years she lived in the Shalom Aleichem Houses in the Bronx, run by the Arbeter-Ring.[7]
Bibliography
Novels:
Tsen yor lebn: di finfte yorn. New York: Frayhayt, 1927.
