Asher Barash

Asher Barash (1889 – June 1952) was an Israeli writer, editor, teacher, and translator.

Asher Barash was born in Lopatyn, near Brody in Galicia.

He was the son of Naftali Herts Barash, a grain merchant descended from a rabbinic family.

[2] Barash wrote stories, non-fiction, and poetry about the “early struggles of Palestinian Jewry.”[3][4] He won the Bialik Prize in 1940 for his Hebrew language novel ‘’Alien Love’’.

[2] In 1922 he founded the journal of literature and literary criticism Hedim with the writer Ya‘akov Rabinowitz, a sounding board for aspiring young writers.