YEHOSHUA
MESHULAḤ (March 28,
1907-July 7, 1980)
He was born in Dubne (Dubno),
Volhynia district, Ukraine. In his
youth, he moved with his parents to Kliban, where he attended religious
elementary school with his grandfather (the local rabbi) and a Russian middle
school. From his youth he was active in
the pioneer movement. In 1926 he moved
to the land of Israel and worked for a time in a factory. He began writing at age seventeen, publishing
sketches, humorous pieces, and articles in Voliner
lebn (Volhynian life) in Rovne (Rovno), and later in Voliner tsaytung (Volhynian newspaper) and elsewhere. He switched to Hebrew in 1929, contributing
to: Davar (Word); Davar leyeladim (Word for children), for
which he edited the radio division; Haarets
(The land); Haolam (The world); Hador (The generation); and the humorous
publication Sikot (Pins); among
others. He was a regular contributor to Di yidishe tsaytung (The Jewish
newspaper). He also published under such
pen names as: Reb Yehoshua and Ben-Yosef.
He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources:
D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the
pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 7 (Tel Aviv, 1956), p. 2820; Sefer
hashana shel haitonim (Newspaper yearbook) (Tel Aviv, 1955/1956), p. 246.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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