SHOLEM ROZENFELD (b. December 13, 1914)
He was a
Hebrew-language journalist and editor, born in Targovitse (Targowica),
Poland. He arrived in the land of Israel
in 1934 and began his journalistic work at that point. With Yiddish he was mainly connected through
correspondence pieces to: Moment
(Moment) in Warsaw (1938-1939); Forverts
(Forward) in New York; and Idishe
tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) in Buenos Aires. He was co-editor of Di yidishe prese vos iz geven (The Yiddish press that was) (Tel
Aviv, 1975), 688 pp.
Sources: Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2
(Merḥavya, 1967);
Mortkhe Tsanin, in Letste nayes (Tel
Aviv) (July 20, 1972); Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
Berl Cohen
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