Morris Rosenfeld
Morris Rosenfeld (Yiddish: מאָריס ראָסענפֿעלד; born as Moshe Jacob Alter; December 28, 1862 in Stare Boksze in Russian Poland, government of Suwałki – June 22, 1923 in New York City) was a Yiddish poet. His work sheds light on the living circumstances of emigrants from Eastern Europe in New York's tailoring workshops. He was educated at Boksha, Suwałki, and Warsaw. He worked as a tailor in New York and London and as a diamond cutter in Amsterdam, and settled in New York in 1886, after which he was connected with the editorial staffs of several leading Jewish newspapers. During the 1890s he wrote song parodies for the Yehuda Katzenelenbogen Music Publishing Company in New York, including Nokhn ball (After the Ball), Di pawnshop (Faryomert farklogt) and Nem tsurik dayn gold (Take Back Your Gold) - all published in Di idishe bihne and Lider magazin. In 1904 he published a weekly entitled Der Ashmedai. In 1905 he was editor of the New Yorker Morgenblatt. He was also the publisher and editor of a quarterly journal of literature (printed in Yiddish) entitled Jewish Annals. He was a delegate to the Fourth Zionist Congress at London in 1900, and gave readings at Harvard University in 1898, the University of Chicago in 1900, and Wellesley and Radcliffe colleges in 1902. Rosenfeld was the author of Di Gloke [The bell] (New York, 1888), poems of a revolutionary character; later the author bought and destroyed all obtainable copies of this book. He wrote also Di Blumenkette [The chain of flowers] (New York, 1890) and Dos Lieder-Bukh (New York, 1897; English transl. by Leo Wiener, Songs from the Ghetto, Boston, 1899; German transl. by Berthold Feivel, Berlin, and by E. A. Fishin, Milwaukee, Wis., 1899; Rumanian transl. by M. Iaşi, 1899; Polish transl. by J. Feldman, Vienna, 1903; Hungarian transl. by A. Kiss, Budapest; Bohemian transl. by J. Vrchlický, Prague; Croatian transl. by Aleksandar Licht, Zagreb, 1906). His collected poems were published under the title Gezamelte Lieder, in New York, in 1904. |
Birth and Death Data: Born December 28, 1862 (Suwałki), Died June 22, 1923 (New York City)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1916 - 1930
Roles Represented in DAHR: author, lyricist
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-17983 | 10-in. | 7/15/1916 | The grine | Al Harris | Dramatic recitation | author | |
Victor | B-17985 | 10-in. | 7/15/1916 | The sweat shop | Al Harris | Dramatic recitation | author | |
Victor | B-20908 | 10-in. | 10/25/1917 | Yom Kipur zu minche | Naum Coster | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-21391 | 10-in. | 1/30/1918 | Zwei mechitunim | Rubin Goldberg | Recitation | author | |
Victor | B-25721 | 10-in. | 10/17/1921 | Mein yingele | I. Leonard Braun | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-28941 | 10-in. | 11/13/1923 | Kalverier Deutsch | Rubin Goldberg | Recitation, with piano | author | |
Columbia | 58159 | 10-in. | approximately March 1917 | Der yiddisher may | Leon Blanc | Recitation | author | |
Columbia | 58207 | 10-in. | approximately April 1917 | Auf dem toiten gurten | Samuel Kornzweig | Recitation | author | |
Columbia | 84569 | 10-in. | July 1918 | Soldiers of Zion (זעלנער פון ציון) | Josef Rosenblatt | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Gramophone | BF3222 | 10-in. | 5/6/1930 | A Jid bin ich | Choral Society "Hasomir" | Male vocal chorus, unaccompanied | lyricist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Rosenfeld, Morris," accessed November 25, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102722.
Rosenfeld, Morris. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 25, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102722.
"Rosenfeld, Morris." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Rosenfeld, Morris, 1862-1923 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80030800
Wikidata: Morris Rosenfeld - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q126519
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/61768672
MusicBrainz: Morris Rosenfeld - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ff0db5b0-6358-4c14-a969-d9281c6d8cec
ISNI: 0000 0001 0907 8611 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000109078611
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