# Asher Barash

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{{Short description|Galicia-born Hebrew writer (1889–1952)}}
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'''Asher Barash''' ({{Langx|he|אשר ברש}}; 1889 – June 1952) was an Israeli writer, editor, teacher, and translator.

==Biography==
Asher Barash was born in [Lopatyn](/source/Lopatyn), near [Brody](/source/Brody) in [Galicia](/source/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe)). 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](/source/aliyah) to Palestine in 1914, settling in [Tel Aviv](/source/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 &#124; Jewish author &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref>
[[File:Barash shalom.jpeg|thumb|[Shin Shalom](/source/Shin_Shalom), Asher Barash, and [Nahum Slouschz](/source/Nahum_Slouschz) at a Hebrew writers' conference in 1948]]
He won the [Bialik Prize](/source/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](/source/Hebrew_literature)

==References==
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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

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