Aliza Greenblatt

Aliza Greenblatt (; née Waitzman; September 8, 1888 – September 21, 1975) was an American Yiddish poet. Many of her poems, which were widely published in the Yiddish press, were also set to music and recorded by composers including Abraham Ellstein, Solomon Golub, and Esther Zweig. They were also recorded by Theodore Bikel and Sidor Belarsky, among others. Greenblatt published five volumes of Yiddish poetry and an autobiography in Yiddish, Baym fentsṭer fun a lebn (A Window on a Life ) and her works include such well-known Yiddish songs as Fisherlid, Amar Abaye, and Du, Du.

Early life Aliza Greenblatt was born in Azarenits, Bessarabia in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), to Brokhe Bas-Tsion Rozovsky and Abraham Aronson . After her father died unexpectedly in 1893, Nora Guthrie, president emeritus of The Woody Guthrie Foundation; and Joady Guthrie. Her nephew, and Aliza's grandson, is computer programmer Richard Greenblatt.

In the late 1940s, when Greenblatt and her daughter Marjorie and her family were living across the street from each other in Coney Island, Brooklyn, Greenblatt and her son-in-law Woody Guthrie developed a collaborative relationship, discussing their respective artistic projects and critiquing each other's works.

Aliza Greenblatt also helped found the Atlantic City, NJ chapters of the Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah and the Yidish Natsionaler Arbeter Farband. She was the president of the Pioneer Women. She was also involved in the fundraising for the Jewish National Fund and Histadrut.

Books by Aliza Greenblatt (My Life). Farlag Kadime-Central Philadelphia, 1935. (Ten Poems with Music). Alizah Greenblatt: Brooklyn, 1939. (I Sing). Farlag Aliza: New York, 1947. (Me and You). Farlag Aliza: New York, 1951. (In Sea Gate by the Ocean). Farlag Aliza: New York, 1957. (At the Window of a Life). Farlag Aliza: New York, 1966.