Zarchi, Israel
ZARCHI, ISRAEL
ZARCHI, ISRAEL (1909–1947), Hebrew novelist and editor. Born in Jedrzejow, Poland, Zarchi immigrated to Ere? Israel in 1929, worked as a laborer, and studied at the Hebrew University (1932–37). He wrote mainly about life in Ere? Israel. The pain and anguish that accompanied the efforts of the ?alutzim to acclimatize themselves and take root in Ere? Israel are major themes in his works.
His novels include Olamim (1933); Yamim Ye?efim (1935); Ha-Neft Zorem la-Yam ha-Tikhon (1937); Har ha-?ofim (1940); Beit Savta she-?arav (1941); Ere? Lo Zeru'ah (1946); Kefar ha-Shillo'a? (1948); a short story collection, Ha-?of ha-Nikhsaf, was published posthumously (1950). He translated works by S. Maugham, J. Conrad, and H. von Kleist, and was one of the editors of Yalkut Yerushalmi le-Divrei Sifrut (1942). A. Barshai edited a collection of Zarchi's stories, Yalkut Sippurim (with an introduction and a bibliography, 1983). For a list of English translations of his stories, see Goell, Bibliography, 82.
bibliography:
Toren, in: Itturim (1949), 129–36. add. bibliography: G. Shaked, Ha-Sipporet ha-Ivrit, 2 (1983), 308–13.
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