12/28 | Birthday of Morris Rosenfeld
Today in Yiddishkayt… December 28 Birthday of Morris Rosenfeld, Poet The Yiddish poet of the American sweatshops, Morris Rosenfeld was born on December 28, 1862 in the settlement of Boksze, a rural village situated on a glacial lake today located in the very northeastern corner of Poland on the Lithuanian border. Rosenfeld traveled briefly to America in 1882, returned to Russia before immigrating to London, where he worked in the needle-trades. In 1886, he decided to try his fortune again in the United States, settling in New York where he found work in the sweatshops as a presser. Two...
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