DOVID-ARYE FRIDMAN (April 18, 1889-July 4, 1957)
He was
born in Suvalk, Poland. He attended
religious elementary school, yeshiva, and later graduated from Cohen’s high
school in Vilna. He went on to study
medicine at Moscow University and served as a military doctor during WWI. He later worked in various fields of medicine
in Hamburg and Berlin. From 1911 he
published critical essays on representative figures of modern literature and
world literature in: Hashiloaḥ
(The shiloah), Kneset (Gathering), Miklat (Sanctuary), and Tekufa (Epoch), among others. Together with Tsvi Vislovski, from 1923 he
edited the critical bibliographical journal Ein
hakore (The reader’s eye). He
published articles, feature pieces, and stories in: Tsukunft (Future), Kovno’s Yidishe
shtime (Jewish voice), and Berlin’s Unzer
bafrayung (Our liberation) for which he was editor for a time. For OZE (Obschestvo
zdravookhraneniia evreev [Society for the Protection of the Health of the
Jewish Population]) in Moscow, he wrote popular medical leaflets, and
for OZE in Berlin a booklet on trachoma.
He was the author of a drama entitled Lilis (Lilith) in Tsukunft
(New York, 1923). In 1925 he settled in
the land of Israel and participated in medical conferences. He also wrote for Davar (Word) in Tel Aviv. He
died in Tel Aviv.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn
teater
(Handbook of the Yiddish theater), vol. 2 (New York, 1934); A. Broydes, in Davar (Tel Aviv) (Av 7, 1957); Y.
Tsuzmer, Beikve hador (In the
footprints of a generation) (Montreal, 1957), p. 484; Sefer haishim (Biographical dictionary) (Tel Aviv, 1937), p. 398.
Benyomen Elis
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