Shlomo Herberg Explained

Birth Name:Shlomo Yosef ben Gershon Herberg
Birth Date:Autumn 1884
Birth Place:Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania
Death Date:1966
Death Place:Tel Aviv, Israel
Resting Place:Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Years Active:Unknown–1966
Spouse:Miriam Orinowski (m. Unknown-January 1953) (her death)

Shlomo Herberg (1884–1966) was an Israeli poet, writer translator, writer of Hebrew literature, and teacher of Lithuanian Jewish descent, who was born in what is now Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania. He was one of the first professional Hebrew translators in the Land of Israel Tchernichovsky Prize Tchernichovsky Prize for Model Translations for the year 1960. He published many poems, books, songs, stories, and lists.

Early life

Shlomo Yosef ben Gershon Herberg was born in the autumn of 1884 in what is now the town of Kudirkos Naumiestis in Lithuania,[1] but was at the time was נײַשטאָט־שאַקי (Nayshtot-Shaki) in Yiddish, Naumiestis in Lithuanian, Władysławów in Polish, and later became the Kudirkos Naumiestis near the city of Władysławów, [Shakhi] in the [Sobalak] Shire in the west the Russian Empire, in the region of [Poland] – Lithuania.

He received a traditional Torah education in Cheder and was later educated in the most important Yeshivot forLithuanian Jewry, Yeshivas The Slobodka Yeshiva, and the Volozhin Yeshiva Volozhin. Afterward, he prepared himself for general education, studied for two years in the Hebrew Pedagogical Courses for the teachers of Aharon Kahnstam and Shalom Yonah Tcharna in Grodno, and was ordained to teach.He was married to Miriam Orinowski, a pioneer in the Hebrew language school of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Career

Zionist, he requested to immigrate to Eretz Israel. He came to the city of Constantinople in [Turkey], and in [1920] the Third Aliya succeeded in obtaining the support of [Aharon Ze'ev Ben-Yishai], who headed the Pioneers who were waiting there to receive a certificate from the head of the Immigration Committee Ze'ev Tiomkin.In Israel he worked for several years as a teacher in various schools in Petah Tikva and in Tel Aviv. Afterward, he devoted himself to the translation work, and was one of the first Hebrew translators. Translated from various languages (mainly from Russian and German), and also from [Yiddish] and more. Translate nearly 40 books, including fiction novels and stories), children's literature and reference books.

In addition, he sent an original literary work. His first works appeared in [1902] in the children's newspaper Olam Katan, published in [Warsaw]. Published [poetry], prose, and lists in various newspapers and magazines, among them "[The Hedges]," "Hapoel HaTza'ir, " [The World (Weekly), The World], " The Land of Israel, "and" The Musafim. "At the end of his life, his works were collected for his book "In the Circle" (Tel Aviv: [Notebooks for Literature (Book Publishing). In 1960, Herberg was awarded the Tchernichovsky Prize for Fine Translation of Literature for the translation of "Days of Days" to [[Feodor Dostoevsky|Dostoevsky]].[2]

Herberg lived with his wife on 22 Hissin Street in Tel Aviv. The couple had no children. In January 1953 his wife died. In his last years he lived alone in a one-room apartment he owned in 21 Ben Zion Boulevard in Tel Aviv.

Death

He died in the spring of 1966. He was buried in the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery next to his wife.

Books

Translations

" Hissin, One of the Belonging Skills, translated by S. Herberg, Tel Aviv: The General Federation of Hebrew Workers in Eretz Israel – Culture Committee. (From Russian)

"Schubert," "Nevertheless, No Moving", translated by S. Herberg, 2 Volumes, Tel Aviv: Art (Library for All), 1932.

Sigurd Christiansen is a living and one who dies: a novel; Translated: S. Herberg, Tel Aviv: Mitzpe, 1933.

[AntoLe Vinogradov], Three Colors of Time: Roman; Hebrew: S. Herberg, A. Gilboa, 2 volumes, Merhavia: HaKibbutz HaArtzi Hashomer Hatzair (Sefer Poalim for All), 1952–1953. (From Russian)

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NEUSTADT-SCHIRWINDT (WLADYSLAVOW) - JewishEncyclopedia.com . 2024-02-21 . jewishencyclopedia.com.
  2. Note: The Tchernichovsky Prize was awarded to Efrat, Herberg, Halevy and Atzmon, 26 April 1960

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