Creator Bio
Lili Berger
1916–1996
Yiddish writer Lili Berger was born in Malkin, Poland. Although raised in an Orthodox family, she received a secular high school education in Warsaw. Berger left for Paris in 1936, where she taught and wrote for leading Yiddish journals. She was active in leftist causes and joined the French Resistance during the war. Berger returned to Warsaw in 1949, when the communists took power in Poland, but was forced to leave, along with most Polish Jews, in 1968. She returned to Paris, where she continued to publish essays, criticism, short stories, and novels.
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On Saint Katerine’s Day
Katerine Vrublevska had thick black curly hair, large, dark velvet eyes, a pale, dreamy, longish face and was fifteen years old.
Her classmates described her skin colour as “café au lait.” She knew…