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- Rachel Korn
- Rokhl Häring Korn
- Rochel Korn
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Rochl Korn was born on January 15, 1898, in the village Podlisky in Galicia, then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, in a family of Jewish farmers. She was an important Yiddish poet of the twentieth century, and a recipient of many awards.
Although she was raised in a Polish-speaking household, and first published her writings on Polish-language newspapers, she started to publish poetry in the Yiddish language in newly independent Poland after the First World War, associating with Melech Ravitch and his Tsushtayer literary magazine, and publishing several collections of poems in book form.
At the start of the Second World War, she found herself in the eastern part of Poland, which was annexed by the Soviet Union. After the start of the invasion of the USSR by Nazi Germany in 1941, she fled east, reaching Tachkent, the capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan. She then settled in Moscow, where she befriended and worked alongside luminaries of Soviet Jewish culture, such as Solomon Mikhoels, Peretz Markish and David Bergelson. After the war, she went back to Poland, where her whole family had perished during the Holocaust, and then moved to Montreal in 1949, where she became one of the major Yiddish poet of the post-war era.