EPSTEIN, ABRAHAM

EPSTEIN, ABRAHAM
EPSTEIN, ABRAHAM (1880–1952), Hebrew literary critic. Born in Slutsk, Russia, he started his teaching profession on the faculty of the Hebrew Teachers' Seminary in Odessa and taught later at the Herzliah Hebrew Teachers' Institute in New York City, where he settled in 1925. Epstein's first creative works were published in Ha-Ẓofeh, but he began his career as a literary critic with an essay in Ereẓ (1918). Although he was impressionistic rather than analytical in his approach, Epstein was a sensitive and earnest critic. Soferim ("Writers," 1934), his first volume of criticism, deals mainly with non-American Hebrew authors but it also discusses four Hebrew writers in America: Yitẓhak Dov Berkowitz , benjamin silkiner , shalom dov ber maximon , and Israel Zev Frishberg. Mi-Karov u-me-Raḥok ("From Near and Far," 1943. is devoted mostly to Hebrew literature in America, but included are also critical essays on other leading Hebrew writers. Some of the essays in the book are devoted to Yiddish literature in America and to the biblical books Song of Songs and Ruth. Soferim Ivrim ba-Amerikah (2 vols., 1952) is a critical work on the major Hebrew poets and novelists in the United States. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hadoar, 32 (1952), 128; Waxman, Literature 4 (19602), 1076. (Eisig Silberschlag)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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