YEHUDA KARNI (1884-January 3, 1949)[1]
The
adopted name of Y. Volovelski, he was born in Pinsk. At an early age he became an active
Zionist. He made aliya to the land of
Israel in 1921. He was a Hebrew poet,
author of numerous volumes of Hebrew poetry.
He published in Yiddish for the first time in: Leyb Yofe’s Dos idishe folk (The Jewish people), Shemarye
Gorelik’s Der idisher almanakh (The
Jewish almanac), Shmuel Niger’s Di
yudishe velt (The Jewish world), Zerubavl’s Peysekh-blat (Passover sheet), Moyshe Shalit’s Leben (Life), Tsaytigs
(Mature) (Odessa, 1913), and in other Yiddish serials in Vilna, Kishinev,
Odessa, and elsewhere. For a short time
he was the Berlin correspondent for Fraynd
(Friend), using the pen name Y. Shurski.
His work also appeared in Morris Basin, Antologye, 500 yor yidishe
poezye (Anthology, 500 years of Yiddish poetry), vol. 2 (New York, 1917). He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources: Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2
(Merḥavya, 1967);
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Sefer haishim (Biographical dictionary)
(Tel Aviv, 1936/1937), pp. 446-47; Y. Karni, Yalkut shirim (Poetry selection) (Tel Aviv, 1966),
bio-bibliography; Haever (Tel Aviv)
(Iyar [= April-May] 1969), pp. 52-80; Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
Berl Cohen
For more information of Karni, especially his career in Hebrew letters, see: See: https://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/02009.php; and
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