David Edelstadt
American writer (1866-1892) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 26
David Edelstadt was a Jewish, Russian-American anarchist poet in the Yiddish language. Edelstadt immigrated to Cincinnati and worked as a buttonhole maker, while publishing Yiddish labor poems in Varhayt and Der Morgenshtern.
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About this person
He was editor of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime in 1891 but left the post after contracting tuberculosis, moving west to seek a cure. He continued to send the newspaper his poems until his death a year later.
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1866 to 1892 · aged 26
