Jacob Werber

Jacob Werber was a Galician Jewish editor and writer.

Biography

Jacob Werber was born in Brody, Galicia in 1859, the only son of Barukh Werber. His father was a Hebrew scholar who, from 1865, published the Hebrew-language weekly . By age 15 Werber could read and speak Hebrew fluently, and in 1874 he published the novelette "Galgal ha-Ḥozer ba-Olam" in his father's periodical. He also wrote articles on natural science for Ha-Maggid and Ha-Tzfirah.
Upon the death of his father in 1876, Werber became the editor of Ha-Ivri. He was a member of the Brody relief committee during the wave of pogroms in 1881–2. Werber contracted a severe illness in 1890 and died shortly thereafter, at the age of 31. Before his death he wrote his own obituary, which appeared in the last number of Ha-Ivri three days before his death.