Biography of sulamith ish-kishor

American poet

Sulamith Ish-kishor ( – June 23, ) was an American writer, known for her religious and children's literature.

Biography of sulamith ish-kishor

Biography

She was born in London, England,^[1] one of eight children of Ephraim&#;[he] and Fanny Ish-Kishor. Her father was a well-known writer of Jewish children's literature and an early proponent of Hovevei Zion, a pre-Zionist movement, and later of political Zionism.

Her older sister, Judith Ish-Kishor, was a pioneering writer of Jewish children's literature in English.^[2]

Sulamith began writing at age 5 and had several of her poems printed in British publications by the time she was ^[1] When Sulamith was 13, her family moved to New York City (like the family in her novel Our Eddie).^[1]

At Hunter College, she studied languages and history.

She wrote widely, and was published in several magazines, i