FRIEDBERG, ABRAHAM SHALOM
- FRIEDBERG, ABRAHAM SHALOM
- FRIEDBERG, ABRAHAM SHALOM (1838–1902), Hebrew author, editor,
and translator. Born in Grodno, he received a traditional education and
also studied watchmaking. After wandering from town to town in southern
Russia, he returned to Grodno in 1858. His first book Emek
ha-Arazim (adapted from Vale of Cedars by Grace
Aguilar) was published in 1876 and enjoyed great popularity. After the
pogroms of 1881 he joined the Ḥibbat Zion movement. In 1883 he went to
St. Petersburg and became associate editor of Ha-Meliẓ\>\> and was
influential in directing its editorial policy toward Zionism. He
contributed numerous articles to the journal under the heading
Me-Inyanei de-Yoma ("On Current Events"), which were signed
H. Sh. for Har Shalom, the Hebrew translation of Friedberg.
Failing to obtain a permit to remain in St. Petersburg, he left
Ha-Meliẓ in 1886 and went to Warsaw, where he contributed to
Ha-Ẓefirah and Ha-Asif and translated many books
into Hebrew. He was an editor of the first Hebrew encyclopedia,
Ha-Eshkol (1888), and was employed by the Aḥi'asaf publishing
house. He wrote Toledot ha-Yehudim bi-Sefarad ("History of
the Jews in Spain," 1893) based on Graetz, Kayserling, and others,
translated into Hebrew M. Guedemann's Geschichte des
Erziehungswesens und der Kultur der abendlaendischen Juden,
1880–88 (Sefer ha-Torah ve-ha-Ḥayyim, 1897–99), published
Sefer ha-Zikhronot ("Book of Memoirs," 1899), a collection of
literary articles and letters of well-known people, and edited the
Aḥi'asaf yearbook (vols. 1–6). He also wrote for Der
Yid and other Yiddish publications. His memoirs, which appeared in
Sokolow's Sefer ha-Shanah (vols. 1 and 3) and in Lu'aḥ
Aḥi'asaf (vol. 9), are important for the literary history of the
period. His popular reputation was earned by his book Zikhronot
le-Veit David ("Memoirs of the House of David," 1893–99), a series
of stories embracing Jewish history from the destruction of the first
Temple to the beginning of the Haskalah period in Germany. The first two
volumes are an adaptation of Geheimnisse der Juden ("Secrets
of the Jews") by H. Reckendorf, but the two remaining volumes were
written by Friedberg himself. It was frequently republished and was
translated into Arabic and Persian.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Y. Rawnitzki, Dor ve-Soferav (1927), 170–4; Maimon (Fishman),
in: Ha-Toren, 9, no. 3 (1922), 88–90; 9, no. 4 (1922), 91–95;
Waxman, Literature, 4 (1960), 160, 434.
(Yehuda Slutsky)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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