"He never castigated the masses the way he did “the bosses” and certain politicians. He knew he was directing his messages of hope and incitement to political action to a people quite capable of taking their lives into their own hands. This arousal by the fiery poet was responded to the way he had hoped. They loved his poetry and forensic skills. They read every polemical article he ever wrote and encouraged him to be bolder."
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Edgar J Goldenthal, The Poet of the Ghetto (1998)
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Morris Rosenfeld
Morris Rosenfeld (born Moshe Yankev Chmielowski; December 28, 1862 – June 22, 1923) was a Jewish writer of Yiddish poetry.
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