James Oppenheim

James Oppenheim (born May 24, 1882 in St. Paul , Minnesota , † August 4, 1932 in New York City ) was an American poet , author and editor.

He was born as the son of Joseph and Matilda (nee Schloss) Oppenheim. He graduated from Columbia University and married Linda Gray, with whom he had two children, Ralph and James Jr.

Professional environment

Oppenheim worked as a foreman at the Hudson Guild Settlement in New York between 1901 and 1903 , and between 1905 and 1907 as a teacher and managing superintendent of the Hebrew Technical School for Girls in New York. Between 1916 and 1917 he worked as editor of The Seven Arts , until he, because of his oppositional stance to US participation in World War I on the black list has been set.

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In his works Oppenheim described problems of the workers, among others, in his novel The Nine-Tenths (1911) and his famous poem Bread and Roses ( Bread and Roses ) (1911). The slogan of bread and roses is now commonly associated with the textile workers' strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912.

Selection of works:

• Doctor Rast . Sturgis and Walton. New York, 1909
• Pay Envelopes (1911)
• The Nine-Tenths . Harper and Brothers, New York 1911
• The Olympian (1912)
• Idle wives . The Century Company, New York 1914
• Songs For The New Age . Century, New York 1914
• The Beloved BW Huebsch, New York 1915
• War and Laughter (1916)
• The Book Of Self (1917)
• The Solitary (1919)
• The Mystic Warrior (1921)
• Golden Bird (1923)
• The Sea (collected poems - 1924)
• Behind Your Front (1926)
• Songs for the New Age . Haldeman-Julius, Girard 1926.
• American Types: A Preface To Analytic Psychology (1931)