Philip Max Raskin

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

Life
Raskin was born on December 24, 1880, in Shklov, Russia. After emigrating to England, he worked at the Leeds 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, ISBN 9781103062577
 * Anthology of Modern Jewish Poetry, Behrman's Jewish Book Shop, 1927