Malka Heifetz Tussman

Malka Heifetz Tussman also known as Malka Heifitz Tusman (Born 1893, Died 1987), an American poet, was born in the Ukraine and immigrated to the United States in 1912 joining family members in Chicagoin Chicago. She also lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and in California.

Malka Heifetz Tussman introduced into Yiddish one of the most rigid verse forms, the Triolet, and mastered another, the Sonnet Corona. A teacher of Yiddish language and literature in the Midwest and the West, Tussman was awarded the Itzik Manger Prize for Yiddish poetry in Tel Aviv in 1981.

Selections from Tussman’s poetry appear in English translation in With Teeth in the Earth (1992).