Beatrice Goldsmith

Beatrice Goldsmith was born and raised in New York City, where she worked as a “sales-girl” in Brooklyn and, during the 1930s, for the Federal Writers’ Project. Her early poems were in Yiddish and published in Kinder zhurnal, a New York children's magazine. Her later work appeared a number of times in Poetry, and her poems were included in the anthology Trial Balances (1935). With Sam Morgenstern, she published a book of “activist songwriting,” Win-the-War Ballads (1942). According to V. Penelope Pelizzon, “the songs became part of the wartime didactic arsenal.” A bilingual Yiddish-English poetry collection, Di velt vert klener, lider un poemes/The World Grows Smaller, Songs and Poems (1953), was published posthumously.