Rabbi H.M. Bien. Oriental Legends and other Poems.

The author is celebrated for his composition of the dramatic Hagadah, entitled “Easter Eve” (1886). Interesting poems appear in this present volume, many of which are of an American patriotic nature and one memorializes Rabbi Max Lilienthal. German-born Herman Milton Bien (1831-95) immigrated to America in 1854 and worked as a rabbi, teacher, merchant and journalist. In 1863 he was elected to the Nevada state legislature. After leaving his position as rabbi of Cong. Anshei Chesed in Vicksburg, Mississippi and his subsequent rejection from another pulpit, Bien committed suicide.