Iwie (Ivye), Belarus (Pages 67-68)

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In the Jewish Press

[Page 67]

Merke, the 13-year-old daughter of “Eza'l Man of Ivye”
Writes Articles in “Ha'kol”
Translated by Tina Lunson

The writer Sh. L. Tsitron, writing in his memoirs about Eliakum Tsinzer in Three Literary Generations (Volume One, Vilna, 1920), also mentions the young girl Merke:

“In the province of Vilne there is a little town called Ivye. In that very town their lives a Hebrew teacher who sometimes writes correspondence to the newsletter and signs himself as “Eza'l man of Ivye”. That same Eza'l has a young daughter named Merke. And Merke is a very accomplished child, is a strong student in Hebrew and writes belles-lettres for “Ha'kol”. For every article the editor remarks that “the writer deserves to become an example for all Jewish daughters”; she is all of thirteen years old and recently based one of her articles in “Ha'kol” on the well-known story in the khumesh about Noah getting drunk and how his children found him uncovered and what they did to him.

Eliakum Tsinzer authored the following verse along with a melody to sing the verse, for the girl in Ivye:

“Who but someone nice
Would be so shy
As to take it in mind
To use as a topic
The exposure of Noah.
To bring the words into speech
Is not often a young lady's style
But the editor of “Ha'kol”
Embellishes his pages with it.”

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Because this had to do with the holy tongue, he set he verse in Hebrew as well; the first lines were lost by Sh. L. Tsitron's listeners and recorders.

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