Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Maundy Thursday
There are 3 days til Easter!
Attention!
Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine.
Click to donate today!

Bible Encyclopedias
Rosenfeld, Morris

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Prev Entry
Rosenfeld, Mordecai Jonah
Next Entry
Rosenfeld, Samson Wolf
Resource Toolbox

Yiddish poet; born at Boksha, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland, Dec. 28, 1862, educated at Boksha, Suwalki, and Warsaw. He worked as a tailor in New York and London and as a diamond-cutcer in Amsterdam, and settled in New York in 1886, since which year he has been connected with the editorial staffs of several leading Jewish papers. At present (1905) he is editor of the "New Yorker Morgenblatt." In 1904 he published a weekly entitled "Der Ashmedai." He was also the publisher and editor of a quarterly journal of literature (printed in Yiddish) entitled "Jewish Annals." He was a delegate to the Fourth Zionist Congress at London in 1900, and gave readings at Harvard University in 1898, Chicago University in 1900, and Wellesley and Radcliffe colleges in 1902.

Rosenfeld is the author of "Die Glocke" (New York, 1888), poems of a revolutionary character; later the author bought and destroyed all obtainable copies of this book. He wrote also "Die Blumenkette" (ib. 1890) and "Das Lieder Buch" (ib. 1897;English transl. by Leo Wiener, "Songs from the Ghetto," Boston, 1899; German transl. by Berthold Feivel, Berlin, and by E. A. Fishin, Milwaukee, Wis., 1899; Rumanian transl. by M. Rusu, Jassy, 1899; Polish transl. by J. Feldman, Vienna, 1903; Hungarian transl. by A. Kiss, Budapest; Bohemian transl. by J. Dchlicky, Prague). His poems were published, under the title "Gesammelte Lieder," in New York in 1904.

Bibliography:
  • American Jewish Year Book, 1904-5.
A.
F. T. H.
Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Rosenfeld, Morris'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​r/rosenfeld-morris.html. 1901.
adsFree icon
Ads FreeProfile