Markson, Aaron David
MARKSON, AARON DAVID
MARKSON, AARON DAVID (1882–1932), Hebrew author and educator. Born in Lithuania, Markson went to the United States in 1904, and taught Hebrew in New York and other cities. He contributed essays and stories to Hebrew periodicals, edited a miscellany Mi-Keren Zavit (1921), and translated Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1923). His writings were posthumously collected in Kitvei A.D. Markson (1938), which also contains autobiographical material, a brief memoir by his daughter, and evaluations of his work by several authors.
bibliography:
Waxman, Literature, 4 (19602), 1080; Kressel, Leksikon, 2 (1967), 430.
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