YISROEL BRISTIGER (January 22, 1862-1935)
He was born in Zhuravne, eastern
Galicia, son of Gedalye. He received a
traditional Jewish education. At age
fifteen, he left for Socheva, Bukovina, and entered high school there. He moved thereafter to Lemberg, where he
studied mathematics and at a commercial school.
He later was employed in a bank.
His literary activities began when he was quite young with
correspondence pieces from his town in Hayehudi (The Jew) in Pressburg;
thereafter, he published in Ivri anokhi (I am Jewish) in Brody; Hamagid
(The preacher) in Lyck; Hator (The turtle-dove) in Kołomyja (Kolomyia); and in other Hebrew newspapers and
serials in Galicia, Poland, and the United States. In Hebrew, he brought out his Pirḥe aviv
(Flowers of spring), a collections of stories and scholarly articles (Lemberg,
1892), 70 pp., and Klasterim (Faces) (Lemberg, 1905). In Yiddish he published articles and sketches
in Lemberger yidishe tsaytung (Lemberg Jewish newspaper), Izraelit
(Israelite), and other Jewish publications in Galicia. He died in Lemberg.
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