3 Quotes & Sayings By Rosca Marx

Rosca Marx (born Rosa Gross), (1868-1944), was a Polish-born Jewish writer and translator. She was also an activist for women's rights, the rights of Jews and other minorities, and cultural and artistic issues. She emigrated to The Netherlands in 1887. Her first book, Truth and Love: A Study of the Gospels and Their Message, was published in Amsterdam in 1899. The same year, she began writing for the Yiddish daily press Read more

In 1902 she published her first book of poems, Vos Vosgesreben (Your own Language). The next year, she moved to New York City to work as a freelance writer for various newspapers. In 1905 she published her first novel, The Story of Two Sisters; two years later she followed it with My Mother's Brothers. Her second novel was published in 1911 as The Book of Wanda; it was an attempt to describe a love triangle involving a Jewish man and a Christian woman.

In 1917 she moved to Philadelphia where she worked as a correspondent for several Jewish papers until 1922 when she became a volunteer editor at the Yiddish newspaper Forverts (The Forward). She continued working for this paper until her death in 1944.

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Endure the cold, and true love will follow. Rosca Marx
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As the man left and became gone the fault wailed after him, heartbroken. Yelling back at him all the ways he and it belonged to one another. Rosca Marx