Yehuda Burla

Yehuda Burla was born in Jerusalem on 18 September 1886, into a Sephardic family of rabbis that had come from Izmir and had been settled in the country for three centuries. After the yeshiva, he graduated from the Jerusalem teachers' college and taught in the schools of the Zionist Organization. During the First World War, he served as an interpreter in the Ottoman army, then for five years ran the Hebrew schools of Damascus. He then taught in Haifa and Tel Aviv and headed the Arab department of the Histadrut. He received the Israel Prize in 1961 and died in Tel Aviv on 7 November 1969.

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• Novelעלילות עקביהYehuda Burla · 1939not translated into EnglishLiterature