Elisheva Bichovsky

Elisheva Bichovsky (1888 - 1949; b. Russia) was born to a Christian family. Her father was the village schoolteacher. After her mother's death, Bichovsky's mother's English family in Moscow raised her. She graduated in 1910 as a teacher. Starting in 1907, she lived in a Jewish milieu and became interested in Judaism and Hebrew language, which she began to study in 1913. In 1920 she married Shimon Bichovsky and under his influence she began to write in Hebrew. In 1925 she and her husband immigrated to Eretz Israel. Bichovsky began to write poetry in Russian in 1907 and nearly 200 of her poems were published. Her first book was published in Moscow in 1919. She wrote stories as well, and translated English poetry into Russian. After her involvement with the Hebrew language she translated Hebrew writers into Russian. She published her first work in Hebrew in 1921. From that time, her stories and poems were almost all published in Hebrew journals of the time.

Books Published in Hebrew

Little Cup (poetry), Tomer, 1926 [Kos Ketanah]

With Morning Light and a Joyful Song (poetry), 1926 [Im Or Boker Be-Kol Rinah]

Rhymes (poetry), Tomer, 1928 [Haruzim]

Stories, Tomer, 1928 [Sipurim]

A Dull Incident (story), Tomer, 1929 [Mikreh Tafel]

Alleys (novel), Tomer, 1929 [Simtaot]

Poems, Adi, 1946 [Shirim]

Collected Poems, Yachdav, 1970 [Yalkut Shirim]

Books in Translation

Individual poems have been published in: Dutch, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Welsh and Yiddish.