Excerpt from Songs From the Ghetto: With Prose Translation, Glossary, and Introduction by L. WienerMr. Rosenfeld was born in 1862 in a small town in Poland, where his ancestors had been fishermen. He has received no other education than that which is allotted to all Jewish boys of humble origin. While well read in German and English literature, he masters only his native Yiddish. He went early to England, to avoid military service, and there learned the tailor's trade. Thence he proceeded to Holland where he tried himself at diamond grinding. He very soon after came to America, where for many weary years he has eked out an existence in the sweat-shops of New York. It is there he has learned to sing of misery and oppression. His health gave out, and he had to abandon the shop for the pre carious occupation of a Yiddish penny-a-liner. In the meantime he has developed judeo-german ver sification to unknown proportions. Of the merits of his poetry let the reader judge himself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.