Yehoash, -1927
Biography
Yehoash-Solomon Bloomgarden was born September 16, 1872 in Varzbolove (later Virbain), near the Russian-German border. Yehoash was a famous Yiddish poet and published his first poems in Warsaw in 1889. In 1890, Yehoash emigrated to New York and worked at various jobs. In 1900, Yehoyesh contracted acute tuberculosis and spent the next seven years at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. He was married in 1903 and in 1908 he made a fund-raising trip across America for the JCRS. He and his wife and daughter returned to New York in 1909. He wrote poems and historical novels and was published in many Yiddish publications and co-wrote a dictionary of Hebrew and Aramaic words in Yiddish in 1911. A second edition was published in 1926. He wrote for the humor and satire journal Kundes beginning in 1902. From 1909 until his death in 1927, he translated the Bible and many other works into Yiddish.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Box 1, 1907-2007
The first Hebrew-Yiddish Dictionary in the United States was compiled by Dr. C. C. Spivak and Sol. Bloomgarden (Yehoash) in 1911.
Box 1, 1992
box contains one [1] file folder from the publications series, which holds a Book Peddler article authored by Jeanne Abrams entitled "The Magic Mountain of the West".
Golden Hill Cemetery, 1996-2001
Two pieces of journalism about Golden Hill Cemetery and the prominent figures buried there.
Solomon (Yehoash) Bloomgarden, 1927
Solomon (Yehoash) Bloomgarden (1870-1927) was a translator of the Bible, a scholar, and a Yiddish poet. He lived in Denver from 1896 to 1909, during which time he was deeply involved with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Bloomgarden was the first chairman of the Press and Propaganda Committee of the JCRS, and sat on the Board of Trustees until his death.
Yehoash Biography, circa 1970
Yiddish Dictionary, 1911
Yiddish dictionary conaining all the Hebrew and Chaldaic Elements of the Yiddish Language illustrated with proverbs and idiomatitic expressions, compiled by Dr. C.D. Spivak and Sol Bloomgarden (Yehoash.) The dictionary was published in 1911.