Gershon Shofman

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

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.^[1]
In 1956, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.^[2]

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See also

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