{{Short description|Galicia-born Hebrew writer (1889–1952)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} thumb|Asher Barash
'''Asher Barash''' ({{Langx|he|אשר ברש}}; 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 Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish and German. He immigrated to Palestine in 1914, settling in Tel Aviv.<ref name="yivoencyclopedia.org">[https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Barash_Asher The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe]</ref>
He died at 63 of a heart attack.<ref name="jta_obit" />
==Literary career== Barash wrote stories, non-fiction, and poetry about the “early struggles of Palestinian Jewry.”<ref>{{cite web | website=ithl.org.il|title=Authors. Asher Barash| url=https://www.ithl.org.il/page_13503 | access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Asher-Barash|title=Asher Barash | Jewish author | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref> [[File:Barash shalom.jpeg|thumb|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’’.<ref name="jta_obit">{{Cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/asher-barash-hebrew-writer-dead-was-63-years-old|title=Asher Barash, Hebrew Writer, Dead; Was 63 Years Old|date=20 March 2015|access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref> 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.<ref name="yivoencyclopedia.org"/>
==See also== Hebrew literature
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barash, Asher}} Category:20th-century Israeli writers Category:1889 births Category:1952 deaths Category:Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Category:Writers from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Category:Bialik Prize recipients