Songs from the Ghetto

ROSENFELD, Morris

Verlag: Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, 1900

Beschreibung

New and enlarged edition. With prose translation, glossary, and introduction by Leo Wiener. Text in Yiddish and English. 12mo. Publisher s blue-grey decorated cloth lettered in gold on front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Spine is modestly toned with light wear at spine ends, a bright, near fine copy. Rosenfeld, sometimes known as the "Poet of Labor," was born in Poland, moved to England to avoid military conscription, and there became a tailor, on to Holland to become a diamond cutter, and finally to New York where he eked out an existence in the sweat shops. He turned to poetry when his health broke, where he wrote mostly of labor and the Jewish diaspora. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 510816

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Songs from the Ghetto

Verlag: Small, Maynard and Company, Boston

Erscheinungsdatum: 1900

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine