MOYSHE
(MOSHE) UNGERFELD (1898-March 3, 1983)
Born in the village of Novoselits (Novoselytsia), Galicia. He was a delegate to Zionist congresses. He fell into Russian captivity during WWI and
began publishing articles (in 1914) in the Moscow serial Heym (Home) and
in Petograder togblat (Petersburg daily). He later published in Tageblat (Daily),
Hayom (Today), and Hatsfira (The siren) in Lemberg; and in Hadoar
(The mail), Haarets (The land), Haboker (This morning), Haynt
(Today), Moment (Moment), and Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal),
among others, in Warsaw. From 1922 he
worked as the Vienna correspondent for the Hebrew press from Palestine and
Warsaw. He lived in Israel where he was
the director of Bet Bialik (Bialik House) in Tel Aviv, and he published Ḥ.
n. byalik veyetsirotav
(Ḥ. N. byalik and his works) (Tel Aviv, 1960), 272 pp. He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources:
Gershom Bader, Medina veḥakhameha (The land and its wisdom) (New
York, 1934), p. 152; D. Tidhar, Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 2.
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