Bertha Wiernik

[2] While living in Chicago, she attended public school and studied Hebrew and the Bible in private lessons with a rabbi.

[1][2] Her near future science fiction story "The Menorah Spangled Ship" appeared in the April 23 and 28, 1919 issues of Yidishes Ṭageblaṭt.

In the story, Jewish refugees in London build a gigantic reconstruction of the Lusitania to bring Jews to the Land of the Chosen People.

[3] Her translation work included Slavery or Serfdom, a Jewish version of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Isaac Mayer Dick and contributing to the English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary, edited by Paul Abelson (1915).

Last night it did succeed in uniting its audience in one common desire - to escape to the exits and elevators as quickly as possible.