Philip Max Raskin (1880–1944) was a 20th-century, Jewish, English and American poet.

Life

Raskin was born on December 24, 1880, in

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. After emigrating to England, he worked at the

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Health Department. In 1914, he published his first poetry collection, ''Songs of a Jew'', and the following year, he immigrated to the United States. He continued to publish his own poetry in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, as well as an anthology of modern Jewish poetry. He died on February 6, 1944, in New York.

Works

* ''Songs of a Wanderer'', George Routledge & Sons, * ''Anthology of Modern Jewish Poetry'', Behrman's Jewish Book Shop, 1927

References

External links

*Recording of some of Raskin's poems on Librivo
Librivox

Philip M. Raskin Select Poems
1880 births 1944 deaths Jewish American poets Jewish poets People from Shklow district {{poet-stub