Aaron Abraham Kabak
Aharon Avraham Kabak (1880 - Jerusalem 1944) was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebrew language author.[1] He was recipient of the Bialik Prize for Literature in 1943.
Biography
Kabak was born in Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Belarus). In 1906 he moved to Constantinople and 1911 he settled in Tel Aviv. After that he took studies in Europe and earned the Ph.D degree. In 1921 he settled in Jerusalem for the rest of his life.[1]
At the age of 20 he started writing in Hebrew. His first story, "The Immigrant", dedicated to Theodor Herzl, was published in the Odessa weekly HaShiloach in 1844. In 1845 he published his first novel לבדה, Levadda ("By Herself", "Alone"), which was also the first novel in Hebrew.[2][1]
His "On the narrow path" Ba-Mishcol Ha-Tsar was a novelization of the life of Yeshu, Jesus of Nazareth.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b c Кабак Ахарон Аврахам
- ^ Page 2629 in Enyclopedia of the Founders and Buiders of Israel
- ^ Jewish book annual Solomon Grayzel, Jewish Book Council of America - 1992 "Then the author tells us that he met his God on the narrow path (whence the title of the book) on the edge of the abyss. It appears, then, that he owes something 27. AA Kabak, Ba-Mishcol Ha-Tsar (Tel Aviv, 1937); The Narrow Path, trans, ..."
- ^ Literature east & west: 14 Modern Language Association of America. Oriental-Western Literary Relations Group, Modern Language Association of America. Conference on Oriental-Western Literary Relations - 1970 "Kabak attempts to convince the reader that Jesus desired his death because he realized that he had nothing more to give to his brethren. The author portrays Jesus the man, as he lived in the Galilee of two thousand years ago."