Harry Rogoff

Harry "Hillel" Rogoff (December 11, 1882 – November 30, 1971) was a Belarusian-born Jewish-American journalist, author, and editor of The Forward.

[3] Rogoff was also co-editor of Tsukunft (Future) at one point and as editor of Di yidishe arbayter-velt (The Jewish workers’ world) in Chicago in 1908.

He was co-editor of Finf un zibetsik yor yidishe prese in amerike (Seventy-five years of the Yiddish press in America), published in 1945.

His reporting on workers in the garment industry lead to the establishment of a new union led by Sidney Hillman and Joseph Schlossberg.

[2] From 1915 to 1916, he edited the literary magazine East and West, one of the earliest attempts to introduce Yiddish literature to American readers.

[9] Rogoff published several books in Yiddish, including Vi azoy amerika vert regiert (How America is ruled) in 1918, the five-volume Di geshikhte fun di fareynigte shtaten (The history of the United States) between 1925 and 1928, Meyer london, a byografye (Meyer London, a biography) in 1930 (which was published in English that year as An East Side Epic), and Der gayst fun “forverts” (The spirit of the Forward) in 1954.

He also wrote several political pamphlets, including Finf un tsavtsik yor komunistishe bavegung in amerike (Twenty-five years of the Communist movement in America), Amerikaner frayhayt (American freedom) in 1916, Di diktatur fun proletariat (The dictatorship of the proletariat) in 1920, Huver, smit un zeyere platformes (Hoover, Smith and their platforms) in 1928, Der kongres fun di fareynigte shtaten (The Congress of the United States) in 1930, Di politishe lage in amerike un di oyfgaben fun der sotsyalistisher bavegung (The political state of affairs in America and the tasks of the socialist movement) in 1938, and Vikhtike problemen fun der arbeter-bavegung (Important issues in the labor movement) with L. Hendin and Nathan Chanin in 1940.