Yiddish-language poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath was born in the The Bronx, New York, in 1958. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child. She began writing poetry in 1980, much of which was published in the journals "Yugntruf" and "Afn Shvel". Several appeared in English and Yiddish in "Hadassah" magazine, in the literary journal "Five Fingers Review" and in various anthologies. Wikipedia
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