AVROM ROSE (b. August 8, 1864)
The
adopted name of A. Rozhetskin, he was born somewhere in the province of
Smolensk. From 1903 he was living in New
York. He began writing in Yiddish in
1914 short stories for various newspapers, as well as weekly and monthly
journals. From 1917 he was writing dramas
and comedies for the Yiddish theater. In
book form: Dos leben, di tragishe un
komishe zayten fun im (Life, the tragic and comic sides of it) (New York,
1921), 224 pp. He had earlier published
a long novel in Russian (St. Petersburg, 1890).
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
Berl Cohen
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