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Gabriel Talphir, Israeli, poet, art critic, editor, translator, born in Galicia, July 16, 1901-1990. Gabriel Talphir (previously Joseph Wenderman) was born in Stanislaw, Galicia, to a well-to-do family with many children. His father died when he was three years old. With the outbreak of World War I, Talphir was sent to Vienna, where he attended high school. As a teenager, he joined a Zionist youth group, Hechalutz. After the war, he studied art and philosophy at the University of Vienna, and taught at Jewish schools in Vilna, Zamosc, Lvov and Warsaw. In 1925 he immigrated to the Land of Israel. In his early years in the country, he worked at various temporary jobs. In 1924, he published his first poems in Jewish periodicals in Poland. Later, he included them in his collected works, "Three Poems." Among his most well-known poems are "Legion" (1925), Jazz Band (1927), Hunger (1928) and "The Scattered Manifest" (1928). In 1928 he settled in Jerusalem and wrote for Yiddish newspapers. In 1931, Talphir founded "Gazith," a journal of arts and culture, which he edited with his wife, Miriam. Along with an overview of the global art scene, "Gazith" covered the cultural life in the Land of Israel, and later, the State of Israel. In its heyday in 1935, the journal had 5,000 subscribers. "Gazith" declined in importance in the 1960s, and closed in 1982. Taphir is the author of "Jewish Artists of our Time" (1937), "Chana Orloff: Life and Works" (1950) and "100 Artists in Israel" (1971). He also published critiques on Jewish and general art, and translated many books, among them the works of Ilya Ehrenberg, Eve Curie (daughter of Madame Curie) and Franz Werfel. Talphir's collection of art photographs, now part of the Taphir Archive, comprises 100-200 photographs, some of which were published in "Gazith." Died 1990, Tel Aviv

Education

1922 Hebrew Teacher Training College, Vienna, Austria.
1925 University of Vienna, Austria, Art and Philosophy.