Louis David Reingold (1874 or 1875-1944) was a Yiddish playwright and journalist. Early life Louis David Reingold was born Eliezer Dovid Ozharov in Ciechanów, Poland, in 1874 or 1875. He was descended from local pedigree. On his mother's side, he was a grandchild of the "rosh ha-kool" (head of the Jewish community) and on his father's side, a grandchild of a Jewish advisor of Alexander the Second, who was shot during the Polish uprising in 1863. Reingold's father was a rabbi in Sierpc, about 80 km from Ciechanow. Reingold studied in kheyder, where his father let him learn more Bible than Talmud, and studied Russian and Polish privately. Later, he attended public school, which caused an uproar, because the rabbi's son was studying without a hat. Coming to America Reingold's father was invited to work as a rabbi in New York, but only became a rabbi for a small group of (Jews from the same Eastern European town). In 1899, his father brought him and a younger sister to New York, where he became a tailor and attended a night school. According to Reingold's grandson, the family changed their last name from Ozharov because it was too difficult to pronounce and spell in America. Reingold became active in the Jewish labor movement, serving as a secretary and executive member of the Tailor's Union, and organized a branch of women workers in 1893. In 1896 or 1897, he joined the Socialist Worker's Party, became district secretary, and he was for a time employed by them. In 1897, he married Esther Friedman, whom he met through labor organizing. They had four children: Gussie, Bessie, Flora, and Joseph, who later changed the spelling of his last name to Rheingold. Louis Reingold worked in the garment industry in Rochester, NY, for a short time, then came back again to New York. After living briefly in St. Louis, he settled in Chicago, where he worked as a playwright, journalist, theater critic, and editor, and was also active as a speaker and organizer for various charity groups. Journalism Beginning in 1899, Reingold wrote sketches about working people's lives for the Nyu Yorker Yudishe folkstsaytung. He worked briefly as a labor reporter for the Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward) for a month, then as a business agent in the children's suit union, and wrote in 1902 for the Brownsville weekly newspaper Hoyz fraynd. Unable to earn a living,