(b. 1909)
Israeli poet. He was born in Tluste, and settled in Palestine in 1933. Initially he taught in a school in Tel Aviv, and later he engaged in editorial work. From 1959 he was on the editorial staff of the Zionist Library publica-tions produced by the Jewish Agency. He published poems and ballads combining Hasidic tales and motifs. He also translated Yiddish literature into Hebrew.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.