Editing Isaac Rosenberg (section)

==Early life==
Isaac Rosenberg was born in [[Bristol]] on 25 November 1890 at 5 Adelaide Place near [[St. Mary Redcliffe]].<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bha053 Charles Tomlinson, ''Isaac Rosenberg of Bristol'' (Bristol Historical Association pamphlets, no. 53), pp. 1-4]</ref> He was the second of six children and the eldest son (his twin brother died at birth) of his parents, Barnett (formerly Dovber) and Hacha Rosenberg, who were Lithuanian [[Orthodox Judaism|Jewish]] immigrants to Britain from [[Daugavpils|Dvinsk]] (now in [[Latvia]]). In 1897, the family moved to [[Stepney (parish)|Stepney]], a poor district of the [[East End of London]], and one with a large [[Jewish]] community.<ref name=guardian-m-wilson/> Isaac Rosenberg attended St. Paul's Primary School at [[Wellclose Square]], [[St George in the East (parish)|St George in the East]] parish. Later, he went to the Baker Street Board School in Stepney, which had a strong Jewish presence.<ref name="Vivien Noakes">Vivien Noakes (Editor.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=YNctq4m8cEUC&dq=Baker+Street+Board+School+in+Stepney&pg=PR27 Isaac Rosenberg]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. See: Chronological Summary of Isaac Rozenberg's Life, pp. XXYII – XXXYI. During discussions of immigration issues in the House of Commons it was revealed that in Boys Department of the Baker Street Board School, Stepney, in 1901, there were "280 foreigners as against 29 English" pupils. — [https://books.google.com/books?id=1zc__1ZjtdMC&dq=baker+street+board+school+stepney&pg=PR801 Great Britain. Parliament. – 1902, p. 1274]</ref> In 1902, he received a good conduct award and was allowed to take classes at the Arts and Crafts School in Stepney Green. In December 1904, he left the Baker Street School, and in January 1905, started an apprenticeship with Carl Hentschel, an engraver from [[Fleet Street, London|Fleet Street]].<ref name=guardian-m-wilson />

He became interested in both poetry and [[visual art]], and started to attend evening classes at [[Birkbeck College]]. He withdrew from his apprenticeship in January 1911. After a chance meeting in March 1911 with [[Lily Delissa Joseph]] at the National Gallery, she, her sister Henrietta Löwy and Mrs Herbert Cohen sponsored his application in October 1911 to attend the [[Slade School of Fine Art]] at [[University College, London|University College]], London (UCL)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rosenberg |first=Isaac |title=The Collected Works of Isaac Rosenberg |publisher=Chatto and Windus |year=1979 |isbn=0701113294 |editor-last=Parsons |editor-first=Ian |location=London |pages=xi}}</ref>.<ref name=sewell-til>
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</ref> During his time at Slade School, Rosenberg notably studied alongside [[David Bomberg]], [[Mark Gertler (artist)|Mark Gertler]], [[Stanley Spencer]], [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]], [[Edward Wadsworth]], [[Dora Carrington]], [[William Roberts (painter)|William Roberts]], and [[Christopher Nevinson]].<ref name="DBHcrisis">{{cite book|author=David Boyd Haycock|author-link=David Boyd Haycock|publisher=Old Street Publishing (London)|year=2009|title=A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War|isbn=978-1-905847-84-6}}</ref> He was taken up by [[Laurence Binyon]] and [[Edward Marsh (polymath)|Edward Marsh]], and began to write poetry seriously, but he suffered from ill-health.<ref name=guardian-m-wilson/> He published a pamphlet of ten poems, ''Night and Day'', in 1912. He also exhibited paintings at the [[Whitechapel Gallery]] in 1914.

Afraid that his [[Bronchitis#Chronic bronchitis|chronic bronchitis]] would worsen, Rosenberg hoped to cure himself by relocating in 1914 to the warmer climate of South Africa, where his sister Mina lived in [[Cape Town]].<ref name=guardian-m-wilson/> The Jewish Educational Aid Society of London helped by paying the fare.

After arriving in Cape Town in the end of June 1914,<ref name="Vivien Noakes" /> he composed a poem "On Receiving News of the War". While many wrote about war as patriotic sacrifice, Rosenberg was critical of it from the outset. However, feeling better and hoping to find employment as an artist in Britain, Rosenberg returned home in March 1915.<ref name="Vivien Noakes" /> He published a second collection of poems, ''Youth'' and then after being unable to find a permanent job enlisted in the British Army at the end of October 1915.<ref name="Vivien Noakes" /> He asked that half of his pay be sent to his mother.<ref>[http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/188164/the-forgotten-jewish-great-war-poet-revived The Forgotten Jewish Great War Poet, Revived:  Long-gone writer is introduced to new readers with the help of graphic art], Tablet, 8 January 2015.</ref>

In a personal letter, Rosenberg described his attitude towards war, "I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. Nothing can justify war. I suppose we must all fight to get the trouble over."<ref>Field, F. (1991). British and French writers of the First World War: Comparative studies in cultural history. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 235.</ref>