Joseph Opatoshu

• Name — Joseph Opatoshu • Birth Name — Yosef Meir Opatowski • Born — December 24, 1886 • Birthplace — Mława, Congress Poland • Died — 7 October 1954 • Place of death — New York City, United States • Occupation — Writer, novelist • Genre — Fiction • Relatives — Danny Opatoshu (grandson) • Children — David Opatoshu

Opatoshu was born in 1886 as Yosef Meir Opatowski to Jewish parents, Dawid (or Dovid) and Nantshe, near Mława, Congress Poland. His father, a wood merchant, came from a Hasidic family and had become a Maskil. He sent Yosef to the best Polish schools in the country. At the age of 19 Yosef went to study engineering in Nancy, France. However, privation sent him to the United States in 1907, where he settled in New York City, where his name became Joseph Opatovsky, and he later took the professional name of Joseph Opatoshu.

• 1914 From the New York Ghetto • 1914 Di naye heym • 1918 Alone: Romance of a Forest Girl • 1921 In Polish Woods • אין פּוילישע וועלדער, 1921; translated to English from the Yiddish by Isaac Goldberg: In Polish Woods, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1938 • ראָמאַן פֿון א פֿערד־גנבֿ,1917; A roman fun a ferd ganev (Romance of a Horsethief) • The Last Revolt, the story of Rabbi Akiba; translated from the Yiddish by Moshe Spiegel, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1952 • אַ טאָג אין רעגענסבורג, Di Goldene Pave Paris 1955; translated to English from the Yiddish by Jacob Sloan: A Day in Regensburg; short stories, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968 • The Dancer • A Day in Regensburg, a writing about Jewish German life in the 16th-century • Bar-Kokhba (1953), a Hebrew novel