Letter in the handwriting and signature of the author Asher Barash, addressed to the director of Bezalel, Mr. Bronstein-Ardon. 3/11/1943.
In his letter, Barash asks him to create more drawings for the stories he has written and make them in color, also that 20 paintings is not enough for 40 stories. At that time, Barash published his well-known stories: “Bustanai”, “Pope Elhanan”, “David Elrai”, and “The Chassid and the Lion”.
Asher Barash [1889-1952]: Israeli Hebrew writer and poet born in Galicia. From an early age he would rhyme rhymes and write stories and plays in Hebrew and Yiddish and a little in German and Polish, and at the age of fourteen he already had “Collection” of “writings” beautifully copied in small notebooks wrapped in his handwriting. At the age of 25, in the spring of 1914, he immigrated to Eretz Israel, through Bukovina. After moving across the country, he settled in Tel Aviv. From the beginning of his arrival in Eretz Israel, he regularly participated in the weekly “Hapoel Hatzair”, which was then the literary stage in Eretz Israel, in the monthly “Moledet”, and in the days when Brenner edited the literary section in “Hachdut” he also published several things. The themes of his works are taken from the lives of Jews abroad and in the Land of Israel. In the design of the characters in his works, Barash tends to idealization and romance. Even in his realistic descriptions, he shows a sympathetic and emotional attitude to the experience he describes. In 1939 he won the Bialik Prize on behalf of the Tel Aviv Municipality for his book “Foreign Love”, and in 1949 he won the David Yellin Jerusalem Prize for the book of poems “Shadow Noon”. Barash was one of the founders of the Writers’ Association and its leaders.
[1] Official paper sheet of Barash 22×14 cm. Good condition
