- Personal name
- Moshe Jacob Alter
- Born
- December 28, 1862
- Died
- June 22, 1923
- Country
- United States
- IPI
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- Comments
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Poland born Yiddish poet, song writer, journalist and more. After spending childhood and studying years in Poland and working as a diamond cutter in Amsterdam and a tailor in London, he settled in New York in 1886. A big share of his work deals with the situation of emigrants from Eastern Europe in New York.
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