MARINOFF, JACOB

MARINOFF, JACOB (1869–1964), Yiddish poet, editor, and publisher. Born in Russia, he received a traditional kheyder education. He immigrated to England, then the U.S. and lived briefly in Denver, where he worked with yehoash and Dr. Chaim Spivak to found the Jewish Tuberculosis Sanitorium. From 1895 he contributed poems to Yiddish periodicals. In 1909 he and joseph tunkel cofounded Der Groyser Kundes, a journal of political and social satire, internationally important also as a watchdog of the Yiddish press and of Jewish institutions. Among the contributors to the weekly were sholem aleichem , Yehoash, A. Reisen , M.L. Halpern , and M. Nadir , as well as cartoonists Z. Maud, S. Raskin, and L. Israel (Lola). Marinoff wrote three volumes of verse: Shpil un Kamf ("Play and Struggle," 1938), Mir Veln Zayn ("We Want to Be," 1944) and Shtark un munter ("Strong and Hearty,"1947) and coedited a collection, Humor un Satire ("Humor and Satire," 1912, from Der Groyser Kundes). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Reyzen, Leksikon, 3 (1927), 333–7; LNYL, 5 (1963), 500–2; N.B. Minkoff, Pionern fun Yidisher Poezie in Amerike, 3 (1956), 169–218. (Sol Liptzin / Edward Portnoy (2nd ed.)