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Name
  
Gershon Shofman

Died
  
1972, Haifa, Israel

Role
  
Writer

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Gershon Shoffman (Hebrew: גרשון שופמן) (born 1880; died 1972) was an Israeli writer and painter.

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Biography

Shoffman was born in Orsha, in the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) in 1880. His parents were Zalman Shoffman and Feiga Haya Levin. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1937.

Awards

  • In 1946, Shoffman was awarded the Bialik Prize for Literature.
  • In 1956, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.

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