YUDE ROZENTAL

YUDE ROZENTAL (January 21, 1904-January 14, 1976)

            A Hebrew scholar and cultural researcher, he was born in Makov (Maków), Poland.  He graduated from high school in Mlave (Mława) and a teachers’ seminary in Warsaw.  He went on to study in Warsaw, Berlin, and Leipzig.  From 1939 he was living in the United States.  He received his doctoral degree in 1942 from Dropsie College.  In 1942 he was a professor at the Jewish theological seminary in Chicago.  From 1969 he was living in Jerusalem.  He published research on Yiddish literature and Jewish history, mainly on the relations between Jews and Christians, in several languages.  In Yiddish he published essays and reviews in: Yivo-bleter (Pages from YIVO), Idisher kemfer (Jewish fighter), and Tsukunft (Future) in New York; Idisher kuryer (Jewish courier) and Idisher veg (Jewish pathway) in Chicago; Di goldene keyt (The golden chain) in Tel Aviv; and elsewhere.  Longer works appeared in: Pinkhes mlave (Records of Mława) (New York, 1950) on the history of Jews in Mława; Yivo-bleter 34 (1950) on Yehoash’s translation of Tanakh, with an offprint edition (1951), pp. 56-126.  He died in Jerusalem.

Sources: Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2 (Merḥavya, 1967); Yivo-biblyografye (YIVO bibliography), part 2 (New York, 1955), see index; Mortkhe Kosover, in Forverts (New York) (May 12, 1968); G. Y. Orman, ed., Kitve yehuda rozental (Writings of Yehuda Rozental) (Jerusalem, 1976/1977), p. 29.

Ruvn Goldberg