Aliza Greenblatt

Who was Aliza Greenblatt?

Aliza Greenblatt was an American Yiddish poet. Her works include such well-known Yiddish songs as Fisherlid, Amar Abaye, and Du, Du. Her daughter Marjorie was for a time married to folk musician Woody Guthrie. She was the grandmother of folk musician Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie archivist Nora Guthrie., and computer programmer Richard Greenblatt.

She was born in Azarenits, Podolskaia gubernia, to Brokhe Bas-Tsion Rozovsky and Abraham Aronson. She came to the United States in 1900. Her husband Isadore Greenblatt was born Isadore Stukelman, a cousin of Shifra Stukelman, whose grandson is Canadian composer Jan Randall.