Why Heisherik Was Born

Why Heisherik was BornIn my first years at the Warsaw Yiddish Writers' Club, I became known as an editor of manuscripts. Working as a proofreader for the Literarishe Bleter, I had published a few stories and reviews and had edited a book or two for the Kletzkin Publishing Company. They paid pennies, but I could live on pennies. I was a boarder in a private apartment where the rent was cheap, and I had no need for clothes; year in and year out, my clothes lasted. I had still (continued on page 21...