MENDL ROZEN

MENDL ROZEN (May 16, 1906-May 27, 1977)

            He was born in Pilov (Puławy), Poland.  He studied religious subjects with his father and secular subjects with a teacher.  At age sixteen he left for Warsaw, where he worked in carpentry until 1929, when he emigrated to Montreal. There he published a book entitled Eseyen fun a hedyet (Essays of a layman) (1976), 216 pp.  He died in Montreal.

Source: Kh. L. Fuks, Hundert yor yidishe un hebreishe literatur in kanade (A century of Yiddish and Hebrew literature in Canada) (Montreal, 1980).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 497.