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SILBERSCHLAG, EISIG — (1903–1988), Hebrew poet and critic. He grew up in a ḥasidic home in Metri, Galicia, migrated to the U.S., studied at the University of Vienna, and returned to the U.S. He was professor in Hebrew literature at the Hebrew Teachers College in… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Salomo Löwisohn — (auch Loewysohn, Löwysohn, Levisohn u.a.; hebr. שלמה לויזון, ursprünglich Salomon Moor[1]; * 1789[2] in Moor, Ungarn; † 27. April 1821 ebenda) war ein ungarischer Hebraist und Dichter der Aufklärungszeit. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben … Deutsch Wikipedia
SACKLER, HARRY — (1883–1974), U.S. Hebrew and Yiddish author. Born in Bohorodczany (Bogorodchany), Galicia, Sackler emigrated to the United States in 1902. An attorney by profession, he served as secretary of the Kehillah in New York City (1917–18); member of the … Encyclopedia of Judaism
FEINSTEIN, MOSES — (1896–1964), Hebrew poet and educator. Born in Russia, Feinstein arrived in the United States in 1912. He devoted his life to Herzliah – the Hebrew Academy and Teachers Institute which he founded in New York in 1921. His volumes of poetry are the … Encyclopedia of Judaism
HEBREW LITERATURE, MODERN — definition and scope beginnings periodization … Encyclopedia of Judaism
IMBER, NAPHTALI HERZ — (1856–1909), poet and author of ha tikvah ( The Hope ), the Zionist and later the Israel national anthem. He was born in Galicia where he received an intensive traditional but no secular education. Imber went to Palestine with laurence oliphant … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LISITZKY, EPHRAIM E. — LISITZKY, EPHRAIM E. (1885–1962), U.S. Hebrew poet and educator. Born in Minsk, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 15. In 1918, after peregrinations which took him to Boston, New York, Central Canada, Buffalo, and Milwaukee, he… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
REGELSON, ABRAHAM — (1896–1981), Hebrew poet. Born near Minsk, Regelson arrived in the United States as a boy of nine. Though his formal education was not extensive, he read voluminously and acquired substantial knowledge in poetry and philosophy. He began to… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ROSENZWEIG, GERSON — (1861–1914), U.S. Hebrew writer. Born in Lithuania, he taught Hebrew in Bialystok, and in 1888 he immigrated to the United States. Rosenzweig edited several Hebrew periodicals– Ha Ivri (1891–1902), Kadimah (1899–1902), Ha Devorah (1911–12) – they … Encyclopedia of Judaism
SILKINER, BENJAMIN NAHUM — (1882–1933), U.S. Hebrew poet. Born in Vilkija, Lithuania, Silkiner arrived in 1904 in the United States, where he taught Hebrew at a Hebrew elementary school and Bible at the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
