Alter Esselin

Comprehensive information about Alter Esselin including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Alter Esselin, (originally Orkeh Serebrenik) was a Russian-born American poet who wrote in the Yiddish language. He was born in Tchernigov, Russia on April 23, 1889 and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 22, 1974. In fifty years of his life, he wrote and had published several hundred poems in such publications as Di goldene keyt, Di veg, Kundus, The Zukunft or Di Tsukunft (The Future) and many others. This educational Alter Esselin resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.