Isaac Dov Berkowitz should not be confused with Yitzchak Berkovits.
| Isaac Dov Berkowitz | |
| Birth Date: | October 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Slutsk, Russian Empire |
| Death Date: | 29 March 1967 |
| Occupation: | Author, translator |
Isaac Dov Berkowitz (Hebrew: יצחק דב ברקוביץ; 16 October 1885 - 29 March 1967), was a Hebrew and Yiddish author and translator.
Isaac Dov Berkowitz was born in Slutsk in the Russian Empire. He immigrated to the United States in 1913 before moving permanently to Mandatory Palestine in 1928.
Berkowitz's first short story, "On the eve of Yom Kippur" (Hebrew: בערב יום הכיפורים|Be-Erev Yom haKipur), was published in the Warsaw newspaper HaTzofe in 1903. In 1905, Berkowitz moved to Vilna, where he worked as an editor for the Hebrew newspaper HaZman. He met and later married Sholem Aleichem's daughter in 1906.
In 1910, Berkowitz published his first Collected Stories, and soon after that, he began to translate Sholem Aleichem's writings from Yiddish into Modern Hebrew. Two years later, he translated Leo Tolstoy's Childhood from Russian into Hebrew. Berkowitz emigrated to the United States in 1913, on the eve of World War I.[1] From 1916 to 1919, he edited HaToren (The Mast), a Zionist-oriented periodical of high literary quality, and in 1919 he edited the short-lived journal Miklat (shelter, asylum, refuge or haven).[1]
After arriving in Palestine in 1928, he co-edited Moznayim, the weekly literary organ of the Hebrew Writers Association, with Yeruham Fishel Lachower. He also adapted several of Sholem Aleichem's plays for Habima Theatre.