Osipow, Samuel

Samuel Osipow (1883-1965) was born in the Russian shtetl of Liadi. Immigrating to America in 1906, he settled in the Boston area where the Independent Workmen's Circle became the great cause of his life.

He wrote many songs and poems in Yiddish, and published My Life in Yiddish in 1954. It would remain largely unread for nearly 60 years.

Murray Sachs (1924-2013) was a talented translator, and professor emeritus of romance and comparative literature at Brandeis University. Because of his magnificent, generous effort, My Life is now available to an English-reading audience for the first ti...