Rachel the Poetess

Rachel Bluwstein was born on 20 September 1890 in the Russian Empire, in Saratov or Vyatka depending on the source, and grew up in Poltava, where she wrote her first verses in Russian at the age of fifteen. She came to Palestine in 1909 with her sister Shoshana, worked the land at Rehovot and then at the girls' training farm at Kinneret, and in 1913 left to study agronomy in Toulouse. The war kept her in Russia, where she taught Jewish refugee children and contracted tuberculosis. Back in 1919, she joined Degania, which she had to leave when her illness became known. She died in Tel Aviv on 16 April 1931.

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• PoetryספיחRachel the Poetess · 1927not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain