Asher Barash
Asher Barash ( Hebrew אשר ברש; born March 16, 1889 in Lopatyn , Austria-Hungary ; died June 4, 1952 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli writer.
life and work
Asher Barash was born in 1889 in Lopatyn, a place near Brody in the Austro-Hungarian crown land of Galicia ; today this area is part of western Ukraine . From a young age he had a good knowledge of modern Hebrew literature . From the age of 13 he wrote texts, at that time still in Yiddish , German and Polish. At the age of 16 he went on a journey through Galicia, where he worked as a teacher. For a while he lived in Lemberg (now Lviv). He wrote articles for the Lviv Yiddish-language newspaper "Togblat" and other newspapers. From 1908 he published texts in Hebrew.
In 1914, shortly before the First World War, he emigrated to Eretz Israel during the period of the second Aliyah ; the region then belonged to the Ottoman Empire . There he worked as a teacher of Hebrew and literature, most of the time in high schools in Tel Aviv . As an author, he now wrote poetry and prose for adults and children and wrote reviews ; he also worked as a translator and editor. He was organizationally involved with the Hebrew Writers' Union. On his initiative, this organization founded the Machon Genazim in 1950 as a central archive for works in the Hebrew language. In honor of its services, it has now been renamed the Asher Barash Bio-Bibliographical Institute .
In his literary work, often short stories and short stories , he describes the Eastern European world he left behind, but also the early days of Tel Aviv; he also takes up episodes from Jewish history. When he depicts the economic and social crises in the villages of his Galician homeland, which affect both Jews and non-Jews, he does so with an elegiac tone. Along with Chaim Nachman Bialik , he belongs to a group of authors who portrayed an average society with heroes that barely stand out. Barash is a representative of a realistic style, but also adopts impressionistic and neo-romantic style elements from German and Scandinavian literature. Barash also wants to portray the irrational world of instincts openly and realistically; his characters appear partly controlled by irrational forces.
With Jakob Rabinowicz, Barash founded the literary magazine Hedim , which gained importance for the development of Hebrew literature from 1922 to 1929. It covered the middle field of literature well, but did not dare to pave the way for new currents.
Awards
- 1939 Bialik Prize
Works in German translation
- A voice from heaven : Jewish fairy tales retold by Asher Barash. From d. Engl. Transl. by Raul Niemann, Gütersloher Verl.-Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1987
- The mysterious candlestick : Jewish legends retold by Asher Barash. Selected u. from d. Engl. Transl. by Raul Niemann, Gütersloher Verl.-Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1990
literature
- Gershon Shaked : History of Modern Hebrew Literature. Prose from 1880 to 1980. Arranged and from the Hebr. translated by Anne Birkenhauer . Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-633-54112-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Asher Barash in the catalog of the German National Library
- Asher Barash at ITHL (Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Asher Barash at ITHL
- ↑ a b c Gershon Shaked: History of Modern Hebrew Literature P. 73
- ↑ Robert Schlickewitz: Asher Barash
- ↑ Gershon Shaked: History of Modern Hebrew Literature, p. 65
- ↑ Gershon Shaked: History of Modern Hebrew Literature, p. 72
- ^ Gershon Shaked: History of Modern Hebrew Literature, p. 156
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barash, Asher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | אשר ברש (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lopatyn , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4th 1952 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |