Newman-Valinski, Rosa

Born in Hotin in a poor family; the parents, Lipa (Lipman) and Lifsha Neiman, were very religious ^[1] . She had three brothers and a sister. At the age of seven she was left without a father ^[2] and raised by her mother ^[3] . In 1900, she emigrated with her family to London , where she worked in a factory of headdresses for men, attended evening school and engaged in self-education, and in 1905 she married. In 1912-1915 she lived in Canada ( Toronto ), then settled in New York. Here she began to write poetry and engage in sculpture. From 1941 she was seriously ill, but continued to write.

She published poems and short stories in left-wing periodicals in Yiddish - “Tsukunft” ( Future ), “Freye arbeter stime” ( Free working voice ), “Tog” ( Day ) in New York; “Di Presse” ( Press ) in Buenos Aires , “Kendeder Odler” ( Canadian Eagle ) in Montreal . In the 1930s, her novel “DiFroi vos hot gezigt” (The Woman Who Won ) was released, based on autobiographical material and describing the author’s participation in the labor and trade union movement in Great Britain and the USA . Her poetic collection Tint Un Leim ( Ink and Clay ), published in 1942 in New York with a dedication to a friend of the family, Mani Leib , included the author’s sculptural compositions, accompanied by her own poems. She held a number of individual exhibitions of their sculptures. The catalog of her sculptures, accompanied by the poems of her husband, was published posthumously in 1956.

• Husband - Osip Valinsky (real name Osip Isaakovich Melechinsky ; 1886, Grodno - 1973, New York), activist of the trade union movement in New York, Bundist , president of the trade union of tannery workers; He was the editor of several periodicals in Yiddish, published poems, short stories, proclamations and journalism in Yiddish and English ^{[4] [5]} .
  • Daughters - Anna Valinskaya (1906–1997) ^[6] , artist; Emily Valinsky-Rubin (1921–2006), choreographer. Son - Louis Joseph Valinsky (1908-2001), economist, playwright, author of the books “Economic Development in Burma 1951—1960” (1962), “The Planning and Execution of Economic Development” (1963), “Issues Facing World Jewry” ( 1982) ^[7] .
    • Grandson - Adam Valinsky (born 1937), speechwriter for President Kennedy , was nominated for the post of Attorney General of the State of New York ^[8] .

• טינט און לײם: לידער און סקולפּטורן ( Tint Un Leim: The leader of Un Sculpture is Blueberry and Clay: Poetry and Sculpture). New York: Posy-Shoulson Press, 1942. - 88 p. ^{[9] [10]}
• לאַמענט און ליד ( Lament Un Lead - Elegy and Poem). Poems by Osip Valinsky and sculptures by Rosa Newman-Valinska. New York, 1956. - 101 p. ^{[11] [12]}

• Portraits of Rosa Valinskaya with her husband (1905)
• Rosa Valinskaya with her husband (1946)
• Tombstone on Mount Carmel Cemetery (New York)

• Rosa Newman Walinska papers, 1937-1953 (English)