Eight letters handwritten by Yitzchak Dov Berkowitz. Seven letters were sent to his daughter Tamara Kahana, and the eighth letter was sent to his son in law Uriel Kahana. Sent from Tel-Aviv to Haifa during the 1940s (four letters to Tamara are dated 1941 and the letter to Uriel is dated 1949). Russian and Hebrew.
* Seven personal letters, in Russian, sent to Tamara Kahana. In one of the letters Berkowitz refers to Tamara's translation of a story by Shalom Aleichem; sends comments about the translation and suggests to compare her translation to his. * Letter in Hebrew, to Uriel Kahana. Berkowitz refers in this letter to a Russian dictionary which he got from Uriel as a gift.
Enclosed: two notes, written by hand, from Berkowitz to Tamara (one written on a calling card), and five envelopes in which Berkowitz's letters were sent to Tamara.
Yitzchak Dov Berkowitz (Slutsk 1885 - Tel-Aviv 1967), Hebrew and Yiddish author and translator, known mainly for his translations of the writings of Shalom Aleichem. In 1906 he married Esther, daughter of Shalom Aleichem and left with Shalom Aleichem's family to Copenhagen and then to the United States where he stayed until he moved to Palestine in 1928. Tamara, Berkowitz's daughter, studied in the United States and worked as a journalist and translator (translated, among others, stories by Shalom Aleichem into English). After relocating to Palestine in 1931 she worked for the American Economic Committee for Palestine, and later in the Ministry of Defense and the Prime Minister's Office. Married the Architect Uriel Kahana in 1941.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Folding marks, stains and some defects.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.