Morris Rosenfeld


Two Letters on the Death of the Immolated Worker Girls

By Morris Rosenfeld

A poem by Morris Rosenfeld in the voice of Eastern European parents wishing their daughters who work in American factories would come back home.Read More

The March of Tears

By Morris Rosenfeld

Morris Rosenfeld recounts the mourners’ funeral march which, he writes, had greater lamentation than “the march to counter the pogroms against Jewish during Russia’s savage empire.”Read More





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