Mordecai Jalomstein
Mordecai Jalomstein | |
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| Born | 1835 Suwałki, Congress Poland |
| Died | August 18, 1897 (aged 61–62) New York City, United States |
| Pen name | Yashan |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Language | Hebrew, Yiddish |
Mordecai ben David Jalomstein[note 1] (Hebrew: מרדכי בן דוד יהלמשטיין; 1835 – August 18, 1897) was a Polish-born American journalist and writer.
Biography
[edit]Mordecai Jalomstein was born in Suwałki, then part of Russian Poland, in 1835. His father, David Jalomstein, was a respected rabbi. At the age of 12, he was sent to study at the yeshiva of Rabbi Moshe Yitzḥak Avigdor in Sejny for three years.[1]
In 1861, he moved to England, where be befriended Louis Loewe.[2] He first emigrated to the United States in 1865, but soon returned to Europe, and learned typesetting in Warsaw.[3] He permanently settled in New York City in 1870 or 1871.[3][1]
Jalomstein was well versed in Talmudic and modern Hebrew literature, and was recognized for his linguistic proficiency. He served for several years as editor of Hirsch Bernstein's Ha-Tzofeh be-Eretz ha-Ḥadashah, the first Hebrew-language periodical published in the United States. For about twenty years, Jalomstein was the chief collaborator on the Yiddishes Gazetten ('Jewish Gazette'), a Yiddish-language newspaper in New York established by his brother-in-law, K. H. Sarasohn.
Jalomstein was a regular American correspondent for the Hebrew newspaper Ha-Melitz, contributing under the pseudonym "Yashan" (יש״ן) He also contributed to the periodical Ha-'Ivri. His historical work Divre Yeme Artzot ha-Berit ('Chronicles of the United States') was published in New York in 1893 and consisted of serialized articles originally printed in Ha-'Ivri over a two-year period.
Alongside Bernstein, Sarasohn, J. D. Eisenstein, and others, Jalomstein was a founding member of Shoḥare Sefat Ever, a Hebrew language society founded in New York in 1880. He was appointed secretary of the Society and placed in charge of its reading room.[3]
He died from throat cancer on August 18, 1897, at his home at 323 East 10th Street.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Also known as Marcus Jalomstein.
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Adler, Cyrus; Wiernik, Peter (1904). "Jalomstein, Mordecai b. David". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 66.
- ^ a b Eisenstadt, Ben-Zion (1903). Ḥakhamei Yisrael be'Amerika [Israel Scholars in America] (in Hebrew). New York: A. H. Rosenberg. p. 57–58.
- ^ Eisenstein, Judah David (1929). Otzar zikhronotai (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. New York. p. 25.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c Kabakoff, Jacob (1980). "The American Hameassef". Jewish Book Annual. 38. Jewish Book Council: 43–45.
- ^ "Death List of a Day". The New York Times. Vol. XLVI, no. 14355. New York. August 21, 1897. p. 7.
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