life, beyond query or challenge, his poems and stories take his culture utterly for granted: they neither explain nor justify" At his death in 1953, Reyzen was eulogized: "There are many Yiddish writers who owe their success to Reisen's encouragement. For years he published and edited, under great sacrifices, Yiddish journals with the primary aim of providing a platform for young, struggling writers... He had no arrogance, no pretensions and no personal vanity."The Jewish Spectator, May 1953 References External links Literature by and about Avrom Reyzen in University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica 1876 births 1953 deaths American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Belarusian Jews Jewish American poets Yiddish-language poets Yiddish-language literature