Asher Barash

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

Asher Barash

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.[5]

See also

Hebrew literature

References
  1. The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
  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.
  5. The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
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