Rachel Korn Explained

Rachel Korn
Native Name:רחל קאָרן
Native Name Lang:yi
Birth Date:15 January 1898
Birth Place:Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Language:Yiddish
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Rachel (Rokhl) Häring Korn (Yiddish: רחל קאָרן, 15 January 1898 – 9 September 1982) was a Polish-born Canadian Yiddish language poet and author. In total, she published eight collections of poetry and two of prose. Seymour Mayne characterized her in 1985, three years after her death, as "the first major woman poet in Canadian literature."[1]

Biography

Korn was born in eastern Galicia on a farming estate near Pidlisky (now in Ukraine),[2] and started writing poetry at an early age.

At the start of the First World War, her family fled to Vienna, returning to Poland in 1918. It was in this year that Korn's first published works appeared, in Nowy Dziennik, a Zionist newspaper, and in Głos Przemyski, a socialist journal. These items were published in Polish, but a year later she published her first Yiddish poem in the Lemberger Tageblatt.[3] Her recognition grew with the publication of her first volumes of poetry: Dorf (Village, 1928) and Royter mon (Red Poppies, 1937). Her first collection of prose, Erd (Land), was published in 1936.

Korn was in Białystok when the German invasion of the Soviet Union took place in June 1941; she was evacuated by Soviet authorities to Uzbekistan along with other prominent Jewish writers.[4] She eventually relocated to Moscow, where she remained until the end of the war.[3] She returned to Poland in 1946, immigrating to Montreal, Canada in 1948.

In Canada she emerged as one of the top Yiddish poets of the postwar era.[5] Korn's fourth collection of poetry, Heym un heymlozikayt (Home and Homelessness), was published in 1948. She remained in Montreal, writing poetry, until her death in 1982.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mayne . Seymour . Seymour Mayne . English/Yiddish Literary Evening in memory of Rokhl Korn on the occasion of the Rokhl Korn Archives of the JPL . . 2023-02-27 . October 13, 1985. 22:15.
  2. Levitan, Seymour (1 March 2009). "Rokhl Häring Korn." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved from www.jwa.org on 2016-04-21.
  3. Levitan, Seymour. Korn, Rachel Häring. 12. 311.
  4. Book: Grosman . Moisheh . In farkishufṭn land fun legendarn Dzshugashṿili mayne zibn yor lebn in Raṭnfarband, 1939-1946 . 1949 . Emes un Frayhayt . Paris . 11 . yi.
  5. Book: Zitnitzky . Pincas Lazaro . A halber yorhunderṭ Idishe liṭeraṭur . 1952 . Eygns . Buenos Aires . 76 . yi.