Miriam Raskin

Miriam Raskin was a Yiddish-language writer.

Biography

Raskin was born in Slonim, Belarus in 1889. As a teenager, Raskin was an active member of the socialist General Jewish Labor Bund, participating in the 1905 Revolution. As a result of this political activism, she was imprisoned for a year in St. Petersburg. Raskin would fictionalize this experience in her 1951 novel Zlatke. The book used “religious language and metaphor to express Zlatke’s revolutionary fevour” She also addressed her Bundist activism in her later book Tsen yor lebn, written as a series of diary entries.
In 1920 Raskin emigrated to America, where she began to publish short stories in Di Tsukunft and Forverts. In her later years she lived in the Shalom Aleichem Houses in the Bronx, run by the Arbeter-Ring.