SHMARYAHU IMBER (February 24, 1868-May 29, 1950)
Born in Zlotshev (P. Złoczów, U. Zolochiv), eastern Galicia.
He was the father of Shmuel-Yankev Imber and brother of Naftali-Herts
Imber. He was an active Zionist and a
delegate to Zionist congresses. He
published feature pieces in Reuven-Asher Broydes’s Der karmel (The
garden-land, 1868), and he contributed human interest pieces and sketches to
Hebrew and Yiddish newspapers in Galicia.
He worked as teacher in a Baron Hirsh school. From 1915 he was living in Vienna and from
1933 in Jerusalem. He published a
portion of Naftali-Herts Imber’s Hebrew-language poetry (Zlotshev, 1900). For a short time, he served on the editorial
board of Shevuon (Weekly). He died in Jerusalem.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; M. Ravitsh, Mayn leksikon (My lexicon)
(Montreal, 1945); Gershom Bader, Medina veḥakhameha (The land
and its wisdom) (New York, 1934); D. Tidhar, Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the founders and builders of Israel) (Tel Aviv, 1950), vol. 4.
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