Rosenthal, Herman

Rosenthal, Herman
(1843-1917)
   American writer and pioneer of Jewish settlement in the US. He was born in Friedrichstadt, near Kiel, and initially worked as a printer in the Ukraine. During the Russo-Turkish War, he served with the Red Cross. After the pogroms of 1881, he organized a group of 79 people and set out for the US, where he attempted to establish an agricultural settlement for Russian Jews on Sicily Island, near New Orleans. In 1891 he participated in the establishment of an ICA colony in Woodbine, New Jersey. From 1898 he was the head of the Slavonic department of the New York Public Library.

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