Elisheva Bikhovski, Israeli-Russian poet (born 1888)

Elisheva Bikhovski

Russian and Israeli writer (1888–1949)

Elisheva Bikhovski was a Russian and Israeli poet, writer, literary critic and translator, often known simply by her adopted Biblical Hebrew name "Elishéva". Her Russian Orthodox father, Ivan Zhirkov, was a village teacher who later became a bookseller and textbook publisher;…