Harold Uriel Ribalow was born in 1918[1] in Russia and immigrated to the United States as a small child.
[2] In 1921 his father, Menachem Ribalow, founded a newspaper for Jewish immigrants called Hadoar; the paper was published in New York and distributed nationwide.
[2] Arthur Hertzberg credited Ribelow with "rediscovering" novelist Henry Roth, who published Call It Sleep in 1934 and seemingly disappeared.
Things like that keep me alive, I'm sure: what little is left me capable of feeling swells with pride like the staves of an old barrel when filled.
"[4] Ribalow was the editor of several collections of Jewish short stories, The Chosen, This Land, These People, These Your Children, and My Name Aloud.