Yehoash (poet)

Solomon Blumgarten
Born(1872-09-16)September 16, 1872
Virbalen, Lithuania
DiedJanuary 10, 1927(1927-01-10) (aged 54)
The Bronx, United States of America
Pen nameYehoash
LanguageYiddish

Solomon Blumgarten (Yiddish: שלמה בלומגאַרטען) (16 September 1872 – 10 January 1927), known by his pen name Yehoash (יהואַש), was a Yiddish poet, scholar, and translator. Yehoash was "generally recognized by those familiar with [Yiddish] literature, as its greatest living poet and one of its most skillful raconteurs", according to The New York Times book review in 1923.[1]

  1. ^ "Impressions of the Land of Israel" (subscription required), book review of The Feet of the Messenger in The New York Times, June 24, 1923.