"Ignaz Friedman, who I admired, was a great artist. He had wonderful fingers and a very personal, individual way of pl…"

"His style was completely his own, and it was marked by a combination of incredible technique, musical freedom (some c…"

"It was in the damp, dark sweatshops of New York where I learned to sing of oppression, suffering and misery. During t…"

"The machines in the shop roar so wildly that often I forget in the roar that I am; I am lost in the terrible tumult, …"

"The tick of the clock is the Boss in his anger! The face of the clock has the eyes of a foe; The clock—Oh, I shudder—…"

"When the work will have killed him another will be sitting in his place and sewing."

"I have a little boy, a fine little fellow is he! When I see him, it appears to me the whole world is mine. Only rarel…"

"Seek me not 'mid blooming meadows, Not there my spirit can you trace, Where workers toil like spectral shadows, 'Tis …"

"The Jewish workers called Morris Rosenfeld the poet laureate of the slum and the sweatshop."

"The first school of modern Yiddish poets to arise were "the sweat-shop poets." Poets such as Morris Rosenfeld and Dov…"