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(1922-2013) Writer. Chana Mlotek was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in the Bronx, New York. She and her husband, Joseph Mlotek, wrote a column called “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry” for more than 43 years for the Jewish newspaper The Forward’s Yiddish edition.

Full Name

Chana Mlotek

Locations

Bronx

Author's Timeline

Unknown

RESIDENCE

Mrs. Mlotek lived in the Bronx, New York.

1922

BIRTH

Eleanor Chana Gordon was born in the East New York section of Brooklyn, New York, on April 9, 1922.

1972

LITWORK

Mir Ttogn a Gezang (We Are Carrying a Song)
Workmen's Circle Education Department

Song book edited by Chana Mlotek.

1988

LITWORK

Pearls of Yiddish Song
Workmen's Circle
1877909645 / 978-1877909641
Song book compiled by Chana and Joseph Mlotek.

2004

LITWORK

Songs of Generations: New Pearls of Yiddish Song
Jewish Book Center of the Workmens
1877909653 / 978-1877909658
Song book by Joseph Mlotek, Barnett Zumoff, Zalmen Mlotek, Tsirl Waletzky, Elie Wiesel, Dov Noy, Eleanor Gordon Mlotek, and E. Mlotek.

2007

LITWORK

Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive
Wayne State University Press
0814332587 / 978-0814332580
Edited by Mrs. Mlotek and Mark Slobin.

2010

LITWORK

Pearls of Yiddish Poetry
KTAV Publishing House
1602801568 / 978-1602801561
Written by Chana and Joseph Mlotek and edited by Mark Mlotek.

2013

DEATH

Chana Mlotek died at her home in the Bronx, New York, on November 4, 2013.

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