Sunday 19 May 2019

P. T. ROZENFELD

P. T. ROZENFELD

            He was a journalist who published in the Soviet Yiddish press articles on political and social-economic topics. He authored in the first half of the 1930s books on the economy and culture of the Jewish shtetl. His works include the books: Dos yidishe shtetl in peryod fun industryalizatsye un drukhoysiker kolektivizatsye (The Jewish shtetl in the period of industrialization and thorough collectivization) (Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk: Central Publishers, 1931), 91 pp.; Kadren far der kultur-revolutsye in der yidisher svive (Cells for cultural revolution in the Jewish environment) (Moscow: Central Publishers, 1931), 56 pp.; and Tsvey kulturn, tsvey sakhaklen (Two cultures, two accountings) (Moscow: Emes, 1932), 88 pp.

Source: Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), see index.

Berl Cohen

[Additional information from: Chaim Beider, Leksikon fun yidishe shrayber in ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers in the Soviet Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York: Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc., 2011), p. 353.]

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