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Isaac Rosenberg

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Isaac Rosenberg · Arts & Literature

What

British First World War poet ('Break of Day in the Trenches')

When

1890, Bristol, United Kingdom — 1918, near Fampoux, France

Where

United Kingdom · France

Biography

Isaac Rosenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — British First World War poet ('Break of Day in the Trenches')

How & why

Isaac Rosenberg was a British poet and artist, one of the greatest of the First World War poets, whose 'Break of Day in the Trenches' and 'Dead Man's Dump' render trench warfare with stark, original imagery. He was Jewish, born into a family of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants in Bristol, and was killed in action on the Western Front in 1918.

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British First World War poet ('Break of Day in the Trenches')

1890

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature