Sunday, 19 May 2019

SHOLEM ROZENFELD


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 (Meravya, 1967); Mortkhe Tsanin, in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv) (July 20, 1972); Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
Berl Cohen


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