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Morris Rosenfeld was born on 28 December, 1862 in Stare Boksze, Poland, Russian Empire.
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Morris Rosenfeld was born on 28 December, 1862 in Stare Boksze, Poland, Russian Empire.
He was educated at Boksha, Suwałki, and Warsaw.
In 1882, Rosenfeld emigrated from Russia and spent most of the next four years in London, toiling as a tailor and publishing in anarchist and socialist Yiddish periodicals his deeply felt poems of the workingmen’s hard lot. In 1886 he exchanged London for New York, where for a decade he barely eked out a living in sweatshops, and where he continued to write Yiddish social lyrics of ever increasing maturity. His first two verse booklets, Die Gloke (“The Bell”) published in 1888 and Die Blumenkete (“The Flower Wreath”) in 1890, aroused little interest. Laboring from dawn until late at night undermined his health. Unable to break out of poverty, he gave voice to his embitterment in a satiric weekly, Der Ashmedai, which he coedited in 1894. Gradually his poems began to be recited at union meetings and his songs sung in tenements and cellar assemblies. His third volume of verse, Dos Liederbuch (“Book of Poems,” 1897), contained his best poems. He characterized himself as a teardrop-millionaire who could only weep for the millions of blighted lives, enslaved men and women whose bodies and souls were broken by the unfeeling machines. He penned a poem, one of his best and most often sung, about a little boy who dreams of a father whom he rarely sees during waking hours because need drives the breadwinner out of the house too early in the morning and brings him home too late at night.
After the appearance of this third poetic collection, Rosenfeld’s fortune underwent a sudden change. Leo Wiener, professor of Slavic at Harvard University, discovered the talent of the poet, then still on the verge of starvation, and reviewed his book in the widely disseminated weekly, The Nation, wrote about him in the Boston Transcript, and published his poems in an English prose rendering as Songs from the Ghetto (1898). For American readers, the discovery of a genuine poet in the exotic Jucfeo-German vernacular of the immigrants, which even Jews then still deprecated as “jargon,” was a sensation. The New York press soon followed with encomiums. French and German periodicals wrote about Roscnfcld, and he was translated into German. He became the first Yiddish poet to attain international vogue. Jewish contemporaries also admired him for his specific Jewish themes, his insight into the past glory and present sorrows of his people, his depicting of Jews as weary wanderers in whom a spark of hope was being fanned into a bright flame by Zionist aspirations.
After a few years of fame, his popularity waned. Adulation yielded to neglect. Poverty again assailed him. Illness plagued him. Blindness overcame him. His last years were lonely and sad.
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