Dina Blond


Dina Blond was a prominent member of the Jewish Labour Bund in Poland and a prolific Yiddish translator. She translated over 30 works of world literature into Yiddish from German, English, and Russian.
She was born Shayne-Feygl Szapiro in Vilna, then a part of the Russian Empire, later in Second Polish Republic.
In the mid-1920s Blond became chairwoman of the Bund's women's organisation, the Yidisher Arbeter Froy. She was also editor of the women's page of the party newspaper, Folkstsaytung.