Yehoash, -1927

Biography

Yehoash-Solomon Bloomgarden was born September 16, 1872 in Varzbolove (later Virbain), near the Russian-German border. Yehoash was a famous Yiddish poet and published his first poems in Warsaw in 1889. In 1890, Yehoash emigrated to New York and worked at various jobs. In 1900, Yehoyesh contracted acute tuberculosis and spent the next seven years at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. He was married in 1903 and in 1908 he made a fund-raising trip across America for the JCRS. He and his wife and daughter returned to New York in 1909. He wrote poems and historical novels and was published in many Yiddish publications and co-wrote a dictionary of Hebrew and Aramaic words in Yiddish in 1911. A second edition was published in 1926. He wrote for the humor and satire journal Kundes beginning in 1902. From 1909 until his death in 1927, he translated the Bible and many other works into Yiddish.

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