Tashrak
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TASHRAK
Pen name of Israel Joseph Zevin; born, 1872, in Gori-Gorki, Government
of Mohileff (Lithuania), White Russia; came to New York in 1889; first
Yiddish sketch published in Juedisches Tageblatt, 1893; first English
story in The American Hebrew, 1906; associate editor of Juedisches
Tageblatt; writer of sketches, short stories, and biographies, in
Hebrew, Yiddish, and English; contributor to Ha-Ibri, Jewish Comment,
and numerous Yiddish periodicals; collected works, Geklibene Schriften,
1 vol., New York, 1910, and Tashrak's Beste Erzaehlungen, 4 vols., New
York, 1910.