Ben Aronin
Ben Aronin (1904-1980), Hebrew translator, US television performer, scriptwriter, poet and author. The Chicago Jewish Historical Society dubbed him "the Chicago Jewish community’s quintessential Renaissance Man...a lawyer, scholar, teacher, writer, summer camp counselor, and for many years director of extension activities at Anshe Emet. He wrote Jewish-themed songs and plays which are still performed today." He appeared as Uncle Ben in the
Magic Door series for children; as an author, he began publishing work of genre interest with "The Doubt" for Amazing in May 1932, and who wrote the Raphael Drale sequence of Lost Race tales about the Lost Tribes of Israel, comprising
The Lost Tribe: Being the Strange Adventures of Raphael Drale in Search of the Lost Tribes of Israel (1934) and
Cavern of Destiny (1943). In 1941, his
The Abramiad, a book-length mythological poem on the emergence of the Jewish people, was published by Argus Books.
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Contributed on: 27 Jan 2019 by
the Aronin Family | Ben Aronin | Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) | ❧
The poem, “Psalm of Gratitude” by the Jewish poet and educator, Ben Aronin. . . .
Contributed on: 14 Jan 2019 by
the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) | Ben Aronin | Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik | Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) | ❧
The poem “Gamodei Layil” (Gnomes of the Night) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik, ca. 1894. . . .
Contributed on: 13 Jan 2019 by
the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) | Ben Aronin | Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik | Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) | ❧
The poem “Tsafririm” (1900) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik with an English translation by Ben Aronin. . . .