AVROM-TSVI ROZENKRANTS (October 27, 1815-December 8,
1901)
He was a
publisher, born in Kletsk (Klieck), Minsk Province. He changed his surname of Feder to
Rozenkrants, and his brother Mendl change his own surname to Shriftzetser. Together with Shmuel-Yoysef Fin, he founded a
publishing house and a print shop which was—after Fin’s death in 1890—known as
the firm of “Rozenkrants and Shriftzetser.”
In addition to one hundred Hebrew-language books, they published roughly
one hundred novels and storybooks in Yiddish which were later reprinted many
times. The first Yiddish publication was
Di yudishe geshikhte (Jewish history)
by Shmuel Resser. He died in Vilna. MENDL SHRIFTZETSER was born on December 18,
1819 and died on November 29, 1906.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
Berl Cohen
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