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Yonah Rozenfeld (1880-July 9, 1944) was a Yiddish writer, known for his psychological novels.

Biography
Rozenfeld was born in 1880, in Staryi Chartoriisk, Ukraine. Rozenfeld was educated at a yeshiva but he left at the age of thirteen following the death of his parents from cholera. With the support of I.L. Peretz, he published his first story in 1904 in the St. Petersburg Yiddish daily Der fraynd. After living in Kovel and Kiev, he emigrated to the United States in 1921. He was a frequent contributor of stories to Forverts until the 1930s when he left the paper following an argument with Abraham Cahan.