YITSKHOK
(IZACHAK) (b. August 27, 1893)
The pseudonym of Yitskhok Rozenblat,
he was born in Darabani, Romania. He
lived in Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, and France, from which in 1913 he emigrated
to the United States. He studied at the
Universities of Pittsburgh and Texas and received his doctoral degree. He wrote in Yiddish, French, and
English. He was the author of the
historical drama: Mir, di gefalane
(We the fallen) (New York, 1925), 130 pp., in which is depicted the Bar Kokhba
uprising. He also published the dramatic
poem: The Marriage of Hosea, a Passion
Play in Three Acts (New York, 1922), 174 pp. He was a cofounder, with Dr. Sh. Melamed and
others, of the English-language Jewish magazine, The Reflex, in New York. He
served as a member of the editorial board and was a principal contributor to The Jewish Forum. He was last living in New York.
Sources:
P. Vyernik, in Morgn-zhurnal (New
York) (June 20, 1927); Kalmen Marmor, in Di
frayhayt (New York) (June 27, 1927).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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