Yehoshua Ḥana Rawnitzki was born to a poor Jewish family in Odessa in 1859.

With Sholem Aleichem (under the pseudonym Eldad), Rawnitzki (under the pseudonym Medad) published a series of feuilletons entitled Kevurat Soferim ("The Burial of Writers").

[1] From 1908 through 1911, Rawnitzki and Bialik published Sefer Ha-Aggadah ("The Book of Legends") a compilation of aggadah from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and the Midrash literature.

[2] Rawnitzki moved to Palestine in 1921, where he took part in the founding of the Dvir publishing house.

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