Asher Barash

Asher Barash (1889 – June 1952) was an Israeli writer, editor, teacher, and translator.

Biography

Asher Barash was born in Lopatyn, near Brody in Galicia. He was the son of Naftali Herts Barash, a grain merchant descended from a rabbinic family. Barash received both a traditional Jewish education at heder and bet midrash and a secular education at a local Polish government school. He was proficient in Hebrew, Polish and German. He immigrated to Palestine in 1914, settling in Tel Aviv.[1]

He died at 63 of a heart attack.[2]

Literary career

Barash wrote stories, non-fiction, and poetry about the “early struggles of Palestinian Jewry.”[3][4]

Shin Shalom, Asher Barash, and Nahum Slouschz at a Hebrew writers' conference in 1948

He won the Bialik Prize in 1940 for his Hebrew language novel ‘’Alien Love’’.[2] In 1922 he founded the journal of literature and literary criticism Hedim with the writer Ya‘akov Rabinowitz, a sounding board for aspiring young writers. In his later years he served as president of the Hebrew Writers Association.[1]

See also

Hebrew literature

References

  1. 1 2 The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
  2. 1 2 "Asher Barash, Hebrew Writer, Dead; Was 63 Years Old". 20 March 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "Authors. Asher Barash". ithl.org.il. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "Asher Barash | Jewish author | Britannica". www.britannica.com.
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