Helena Khatskeles the distinguished Yiddish writer from the Soviet Lithuanian Republic, died in Kovno at the age of 90 according to reports in “Tiesa,” the official organ of the Lithuanian Communist Party, the Lithuanian Writers Union and the Lithuanian Ministry of Education. Ms. Khatskeles was born in Kovno on July 25, 1882. She was the author of a large number of widely acclaimed children’s stories in Yiddish and a pioneer in this field among Yiddish writers. She was also the author of several books dealing with problems of education. During World War II she was evacuated to the Soviet Union but returned to her native Kovno after the war where she lived in retirement.
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