ROZE MARGOSHES-KIRSHENBOYM (ROSE KIRSCHENBAUM-MARGOSHES) (May 8, 1887-May 1967)
The wife of Dr. Shmuel Margoshes,
she was born in Doline (Dolina), near Stryj (Stryi), eastern Galicia. She attended religious primary school and
public elementary school in Dolina. In
1903 she moved to the United States and graduated from high school in New
York. In 1921 she was working at the New
York port as an interpreter for the “Society to Assist Immigrants.” She composed impressions and sketches of
Jewish life in the old country, as well as writing about her experiences with
Jewish immigrants in New York. She
debuted in print in Idisher kemfer
(Jewish fighter) in New York in 1906, and from that point in time, under the
name Roze Kirshenboym-Margoshes, published in: Forverts (Forward), Yidishes
tageblat (Jewish daily newspaper), and Idisher
almanakh (Jewish almanac)—in New York; among other serials. She also wrote from 1906 poems in Yiddish,
Polish, and English, and she published them in Idisher kemfer, Dos folk
(The people), and Der amerikaner (The
American), as well as in the English-language Hebrew Standard and American
Hebrew—all in New York; and in the Polish-language Robotnik (Worker) in Warsaw.
She died in New York.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3
(under the name “Kirshenboym-Margoshes, Roze”); information on her writing from
Dr. Shmuel Margoshes in New York.
Zaynvl Diamant
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