Glasman, Baruch
GLASMAN, BARUCH
GLASMAN, BARUCH (1893–1945), Yiddish novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Glasman was born in Kapitkevich, Belorussia, and raised in nearby Mozyr. When he was 13 his family moved to Kiev, where he attended a Russian secondary school. In 1911, he emigrated to the U.S. and received a B.A. from Ohio State University in 1918, after which he served in the U.S. Army (1918–19). He began his literary career in English, publishing short stories in the Anglo-Jewish journal Menorah. He soon turned to writing in Yiddish and published his works in Tsukunft, Der Yidisher Kemfer, Der Tog, Morgn-Zhurnal, and Forverts. In 1924, he moved to Poland, where he toured, lecturing to audiences on the subject of Yiddish literature in America. In 1930, he returned to New York, where he remained until his death in 1945. Glasman is best known for his novels, including A Trep ("A Step," 1917), Af an Inzl ("On an Island," 1927), and In Goldenem Zump ("In the Golden Swamp," 1940). His selected works appeared in eight volumes (1927–37).
bibliography:
lynl, 2 (1958), 249–52; A. Beckerman, Baruch Glasman (1944); B. Rivkin, Undzere Prozaiker (1951), 274–84; S.D. Singer, Dikhter un Prozaiker (1959), 145–52; A. Tabachnik, Dikhter un Dikhtung (1965), 441–51. add. bibliography: Y. Kisin, Lid un Esay (1953), 249–54; R.R. Wisse, A Little Love in Big Manhattan (1988), 166.
[Melech Ravitch /
Marc Miller (2nd ed.)]