text: Town»Inhabitants of Sejny - former and present»Jews of Sejny»History»Moris Rozenfeld
  The story of Moris Rozenfeld's life is a violent and dramatic one, like the tragic times he happened to live in. he was born as Mosze Jakub Ałter in 1862 in a family of Jewish fisherman in the village Boksze, one of the most beautiful corners of Sejny region.
  He had many siblings but when he was still a child, six of them died, including three sisters deceased before maturing. His family tongue was Yiddish, the jargon of the poor disdained by the rich. Even though he knew Polish and Russian, German and English, he stayed faithful to Yiddish until the end of his life, making it a literary language. As a student of yeshiva in Sejny, famous for its liberal character and attachment to Jewish Enlightenment (haskala), he learned the new ways of social thinking and the revolutionary ideas of changing the world. His sense of social injustice and national prejudice made him join the socialists' movement, although he has never become its ideologist.
  Moris Rozenfeld: "Wiersze" [w:] Antologia poezji żydowskiej. Warszawa 1983
  All these booksare available at the Documentation Center of Borderland Cultures in Borderland Center in Sejny.