On Saint Katerine’s Day

Lili Berger

1970

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 she was a beauty, how could she not know since they always told her so. Among her school-friends she looked like an exotic rose by some chance growing…

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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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