Aliza Greenblatt | |
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| Born | Aliza Waitzman September 8, 1888 Azarenits, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | September 21, 1975 (aged 87) New York, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, poet |
| Spouse | Isadore Greenblatt |
| Children | 5, including Marjorie Guthrie |
| Relatives | Arlo Guthrie (grandson) Richard Greenblatt (grandson) Nora Guthrie (granddaughter) |
Aliza Greenblatt (Yiddish: עליזה גרינבלאַט; September 8, 1888 – September 21, 1975) was an American Yiddish poet. Many of her poems, which were widely published in the Yiddish press, were also set to music and recorded by composers including Abraham Ellstein, Solomon Golub, and Esther Zweig.[1] They were also recorded by Theodore Bikel and Sidor Belarsky, among others.[2][page needed] Greenblatt published five volumes of Yiddish poetry and an autobiography in Yiddish, Baym fentsṭer fun a lebn (A Window on a Life Yiddish: ביים פענצטער פון א לעבן) and her works include such well-known Yiddish songs as Fisherlid, Amar Abaye, and Du, Du.