Haim Bentsionovich Baltsan ( Hebrew חײם בלצן ; English Hayim Baltsan ; May 5, 1910 , Chisinau , Bessarabian province - August 14, 2002 , Israel ) - Israeli lexicographer, journalist, statesman.
| Chaim Balzan | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Chaim Bentsionovich Baltsan |
| Date of Birth | May 5, 1910 |
| Place of Birth | Chisinau , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | August 14, 2002 (92 years old) |
| A place of death | Israel |
| Citizenship |    |
| Occupation | journalist , politician |
| Years of creativity | 1920s - 1980s |
| Language of Works | Hebrew |
Biography
Chaim Baltsan was born in Chisinau to a family of Hebrew prose writer and scholar of Hebrew literature Bentsion Shmilevich (Samuilovich) Balzan (1885-1941, originally from Leovo ) [1] and Esther Kremenstein, in the literary dynasty, among whose members is his cousin, a famous Moldavian poet Joseph Baltsan , uncle - lexicographer, author of the first trilingual Hebrew - Yiddish - Romanian dictionary Leib Shmilevich (Samuilovich) Baltsan (1891-1942), nephew - journalist and publisher Lev (Leonid) Baltsan . [2]
In 1935, after studying at the University of Bucharest, he settled in Mandatory Palestine, where he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He became the founder and chief editor of the news department of the Ha-Boker newspaper (1935-1942), worked as a correspondent for the newspaper Ha-Arets in Turkey , Eastern and Central Europe.
During the Second World War, he served in the British forces, in the protection of the US Embassy (1942-1943) and Great Britain (1943-1944) in Istanbul . He was the director of the KhIAS ( Jewish Immigrant Assistance Association ) refugee organization in Turkey (1944–1945) and Czechoslovakia (1945–1948). Parents died in the Transnistrian ghetto.
After the founding of the State of Israel, he headed the public relations department of the Ministry of Defense (since 1949 ). In 1970, he founded and headed (until 1973 ) the faculty of journalism at Tel Aviv University. He was Executive Director and Honorary Editor-in-Chief of the Israel News Agency, Vice President of the Tel Aviv Association of Journalists (1987-1989).
In 1974, Baltsan became a co-founder of the Movement for Uniform Spelling in Hebrew, drafted a Proposal for Reforming Spelling in Hebrew, and a number of unusually popular transliterated Hebrew- English , English-Hebrew (since 1989 ), Russian -Hebrew, and Hebrew-Russian ( since 1991 ) dictionaries that have withstood many reprints in both Israel and the United States.
Daughter - the famous Israeli pianist Astrit Balzan (born 1956). [3]
Books by Chaim Balzan
- Webster's New World Hebrew Dictionary: Hebrew-English / English-Hebrew, transliterated, McMillan Reference Books: New York , 1989 and 1992; a number of reprints, including Simon & Schuster Inc: New York, 1994; and Prentice Hall: New York, 1995.
- Practical Hebrew Dictionary for Russian Speakers (with transliteration), Map: Tel Aviv, 1995.
- Hebrew Dictionary for Russian Speakers (in Hebrew and Transliteration), Ivrus: Tel Aviv, 2000.
- Hebrew-Russian Dictionary for All, Ivrus: Tel Aviv, 2000.
- Russian-Hebrew Dictionary for All (co-authored with Leo Balzan ), Ivrus: Tel Aviv, 2000.
Notes
- ↑ Memories of Jacob Balzan
- ↑ Astrith Baltsan
- ↑ About Astrit Balzan Archived November 20, 2010.