Rose Strunsky Lorwin (1884,

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– 1963,

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) was a Jewish Russian-American translator and socialist based in New York City.

Early life and education

Rose Strunsky was born to a Jewish Russian family in what is now

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and was part of the

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. She had older siblings

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and Max. In 1886 her family emigrated by ship to the United States, settling in

. The sisters learned English and attended public schools. After several years the family moved to

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, where they lived with her older brother, Dr. Max Strunsky, who had become a physician. Like her older sister

, Rose attended

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Activist career

Rose and Anna became active in socialist politics and San Francisco's literary scene, where they were members of "The Crowd", which included writer

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. In 1905 the sisters travelled together in Russia as correspondents for

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, an American socialist who had a revolutionary news bureau. Anna Strunsky married him later that year, before the three returned to the United States. They lived in

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in New York City in the 1910s. Rose Strunsky married Lewis Lorwin in 1920. They had two children together and lived in New York. Throughout her life she worked as a translator. Her translations into English include

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

's ''The Confession'', the journal of

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

and

Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...

's ''

Literature and Revolution ''Literature and Revolution'' (russian: Литература и революция) is a classic work of literary criticism from the Marxist standpoint written by Leon Trotsky in 1924. By discussing the various literary trends that were around i ...

''. Rose Strunsky Lorwin died in New York in 1963. She was the mother of Val, Boris and Rosalind Lorwin.''New York Times''
"Rosalind Lorwin, 66, Psychology Professor," December 31, 1992
accessed May 13, 2011 Her daughter became a psychology professor.

Works

*''Abraham Lincoln'', 1914 *(transl.) Maxim Gorky, ''The confession'', 1916 *(transl,) ''The Journal of Leo Tolstoi'', Knopf, 1917 *(transl.) Leon Trotsky, ''Literature and Revolution'', International Publishers, 1925

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorwin, Rose Strunsky 1884 births 1963 deaths Russian–English translators Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Stanford University alumni Belarusian Jews People from Liozna District 20th-century American translators 20th-century American women writers