Rose Cohen: Out of the Shadow (A Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side).
Inscribed, Signed and Dated by author, Rose Cohen in ink at the front endpaper.
First Edition, 1918 by George H. Doran.
With 12 illustrated plates including frontispiece, by Walter Jack Duncan.
The book was first published in 1918 and documents the experience of a Jewish immigrant family and specifically a young Jewish immigrant woman working in the textile industry.
Rose Gollup Cohen (1880 - 1925) grew up in a village in the Russian Empire, immigrated to America with her aunt Masha in 1892 to join her father, and lived on Lower East Side of N.Y.C. She worked in a garment sweatshop, joined a union, and also worked as a domestic servant. She was at one point visited by Lillian Wald, who sent her to Presbyterian Hospital, where she met people who sponsored summer outings for immigrant children. She then worked summers at a Connecticut retreat. Wald also referred her to a cooperative shirtwaist shop directed by Leonora O' Reilly, and when O' Reilly began teaching at the Manhattan Trade School for Girls in 1902, she recruited Cohen as her assistant.
Cohen attended classes at Breadwinners College at the Educational Alliance, the Rand School of Social Science, and University Extension at Columbia University.
In 1918 Cohen published her autobiography, Out of the Shadow, well-received and published in French and Russian, as well as English. Between 1918 and 1922, Cohen wrote several short pieces, five published in New York, and three in Philadelphia literary magazines. One short story Natalkas Portion, was reprinted six times, and appeared in Best Short Stories of 1922. In 1923 and 1924 Cohen met Lilla Cabot Perry and Edwin Arlington Robinson while attending the MacDowell Colony.
She died under mysterious circumstances, perhaps a suicide. Anzia Yezierska wrote a short story about her, called Wild Winter Love (1927) that ended in suicide.

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