Rachel Boymvol

Rachel Boymvol, sometimes spelled Baumwoll (, , ; March 4, 1914, Odessa - June 16, 2000, Jerusalem) was a Soviet poet, children's book author, and translator who wrote in both Yiddish and Russian. Because of the popularity of her Soviet children's books, they were translated into multiple languages. After 1971 she emigrated to Israel and published a number of books of poetry in Yiddish.

Biography Boymvol was born in Odessa, Russian Empire on March 4, 1914. She then studied in the Jewish department at the Second Moscow State University; she met her husband, , while in Moscow and they were married there. After the war she settled in Moscow, and starting in 1948 she published many poems, children's songs, and stories in Russian, as well as translating from Yiddish to Russian, including a novel by Moshe Kulbak in 1960.

Boymvol's son Julius, who was a dissident, applied to emigrate to Israel in 1969. Her husband was able to follow her there during Passover 1972. (1936, with Ziame Telesin) (1936) (1938) (1938) (1940) (1947) (1963) (1966) (1968) (1972) (1973) (1977) (1979) (1983) (1988) (1989) (1990) (1998)