Representing the immigrant experience; Morris Rosenfeld and the emergence of Yiddish literature in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Representing the immigrant experience; Morris Rosenfeld and the emergence of Yiddish literature in America.

Miller, Marc.

Syracuse U. Pr.

2007

200 pages

$16.95

Paperback

Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art

PJ5129

Rosenfeld is perhaps best remembered for his "sweatshop poems" in the early American Jewish press, collected in Songs from the Ghetto (1898), to lament the conditions under which immigrants ...

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