Meshulam Zalman Goldbaum (Hebrew: משולם זלמן גולדבוים, romanized: Meshulam Zalman Goldboym; 1 January 1836 – 2 November 1915)[1] was a Galician Hebrew poet and playwright.
Meshulam Zalman Goldbaum | |
|---|---|
| Born | Moshe Goldbaum 1 January 1836 Lvov, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 2 November 1915 (aged 79) Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Literary movement | Haskalah |
Biography edit
Goldbaum was born in Lvov, where he was raised among Maskilim. He began writing poems at a young age, the earliest of which were published in Naḥman Isaac Fischmann's Safah la-ne’emanim in 1854. He received a letter of thanks from Napoleon III for an occasional poem celebrating the Treaty of Paris.[1]
In 1857 he moved to Iași, where he founded a school for Jewish children.[1] While there he published articles in German and French on the rights of Romanian Jews.[2] He was an active Freemason, and published a tragedy inspired by the Masonic movement, Yedidya ha-Isi (Iași, 1873).[3]
After thirty years as an educator in Romania, he returned in 1888 to his hometown.[2] He continued publishing poetry, some of which he collected in his book Sefer ha-shirim (Lviv, 1887). He lived his final years in solitude, and died in Prague as a refugee of the First World War in November 1915.[4]
Publications edit
- Yedidya ha-Isi ben Shim'on ben Shetaḥ [Jedediah the Essene] (Tragedy). Jassy: J. Goldenbaum. 1873.
- Sefer ha-shirim [The Book of Poems]. Vol. 1. Lemberg: E. Salat. 1910.
- Sefer ha-shirim [The Book of Poems]. Vol. 2. Lemberg: E. Salat. 1915.
References edit
- ^ a b c Sokolow, Naḥum (1889). Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom [Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers] (in Hebrew). Warsaw. pp. 16–17.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Galron-Goldschläger, Joseph, ed. (2018). "Meshullam Solomon Goldbaum". Leksikon ha-sifrut ha-'ivrit ha-ḥadasha (in Hebrew). Ohio State University. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Menda-Levy, Oded (2008). "Goldbaum, Meshulam Zalman". In Hundert, Gershon (ed.). YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Translated by Hann, Rami. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- ^ Lachover, Fischel (4 October 1939). "Meshorer-filosof" [Poet-Philosopher] (PDF). Davar (in Hebrew). pp. 3–4.
Further reading edit
- Govrin, Nurit (1969). "Meshulam Zalman Goldbaum: Biyografyah shel meshorer she-nishkhaḥ" [Meshulam Zalman Goldbaum: A Biography of a Forgotten Poet]. Ha-Sifrut. 1 (3–4): 697–716.