1) (fl. 4th cent BCE)
Israelite woman, wife of Ahasuerus, King of Persia, and niece of Mordecai. Through her intervention, the plan of Haman (the prime minister) to annihilate the Jewish community was thwarted.
2) (Lifschitz, Malkah) (1880-1943)
Russian writer and communist leader. She was born in Minsk. She edited Bundist periodicals after the revolution of 1905. She was one of the main promoters in the Bund of Jewish education in Yiddish. After the Russian Revolution in February 1917 she became a member of the central committee of the Bund. From 1921 to 1930 she was a leader of the Yevsektzia. She published a Yiddish edition of Lenin's writings, and edited the Moscow Yiddish daily Ernes.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.