Elisheva Cohen-Tzedek — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

Elisheva Cohen-Tzedek, the daughter of the renowned pediatrician and social activist in Vilna, Dr. Ya'akov Feigenberg, was born in 1922. She attended the Sofia Markovna-Gurewitz elementary school and the Reali high school in Vilna. She was a member of the Jungwald (a group of young poets and artists) while she was still at school. After she graduated she was accepted as a candidate for scientific work in YIVO. From 1939-41 her work was published in Jewish and Polish journals in Vilna and Kovno. She also worked as a journalist and published stories and articles in the Polish, Russian and Lithuanian press. She wrote for the Sovietisch Heimland and some of her articles were reprinted in the Jewish press in Warsaw, Paris and Buenos Aires. In June, 1941 Elisheva and her whole family fled to Samara in Russia, where they settled and there her son was born.  During all that time her husband, Shlomo Cohen-Tzedek, was fighting the Nazis at the front.

In 1984, her first book Sippurim Ureshimot in Yiddish was published; in 1988 she was one of the editors of the prose Yiddish supplement Einyanin (Together) that was published in Moscow.

She made aliyah in 1990 and began working for Naye Tzaytung (A New Paper). In 1993 she was awarded the Prize for Yiddish Literature by the municipality of Ashkelon.

source:  Beit Leivick