A funeral service was held Sunday for Rachel Korn, international literary award winner and one of the world’s major Yiddish poets and short story writers. She was 84 years old. She was the author of II volumes of poetry and short stories and her work has been translated into many languages, including French, German, Polish and Rumanian. A twelfth volume, “Generations,” will appear next month.
Born in Poland, Ms. Korn had her first volume of poetry, “Village,” published in 1928. Her book of short stories, “Earth,” was published in 1936. During World War II, she fled Poland and went to the Soviet Union and then moved to Sweden. She arrived in Canada in 1949 and resided in Montreal until her death last week.
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