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Asher Barash (; 1889 – June 1952) was an Israeli writer, editor, teacher, and translator.
/ref> He died at 63 of a heart attack.
He won the
Asher Barash (; 1889 – June 1952) was an Israeli writer, editor, teacher, and translator.
Biography
Asher Barash was born inLopatyn
Lopatyn (, ) is a rural settlement in Sheptytskyi Raion of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the left bank of the Ostrivka, a left tributary of the Styr in the drainage basin of the Dnieper. Lopatyn hosts the administration of Lopatyn se ...
, near Brody
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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 Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish and German. He immigrated
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to Palestine in 1914, settling in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...
.The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe/ref> He died at 63 of a heart attack.
Literary career
Barash wrote stories, non-fiction, and poetry about the “early struggles of Palestinian Jewry.”
He won the Bialik Prize
The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel, for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Israel's national poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik. There are two separate p ...
in 1940 for his Hebrew language novel ‘’Alien Love’’. 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.
See also
Hebrew literature
Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by non-Jews, mostly among the Arab cit ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barash, Asher 20th-century Israeli writers 1889 births 1952 deaths Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Writers from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria