Potash's early work was written and published in Polish, but following the Lwów pogrom of 1918 she turned to Yiddish. Beginning in 1922 she published a variety of works in Yiddish, including nature poetry, short stories, children's stories, and translations of Polish works. In 1924, she moved to Łódź, which at the time had the Poland's second-largest population of Jews and was a center of modernist experimentation. She married poet Khayim-Leyb Fuks (1897–1953) and they had a daughter, Avivit, in 1926. She first came to widespread attention after the inclusion of four of her poems in Ezra Korman's "Yidishe dikhterins: antologye" ("Yiddish Women Poets: Anthology", 1928). Her first collection of poetry, "Vint oyf klavishn" ("Wind on Keys"), was published in Łódź in 1934. The title refers to the lyre of King David, which, according to "Berakhot", hung over his bed and played by itself when the wind blew across it.