Isaac Dov Berkowitz was born in
Slutsk in the
Russian Empire. He immigrated to the
United States in 1913 before moving permanently to
Mandatory Palestine in 1928. Berkowitz's first short story, "On the eve of Yom Kippur" (), was published in the
Warsaw newspaper
HaTzofe in 1903. In 1905, Berkowitz moved to
Vilna, where he worked as an editor for the Hebrew newspaper
HaZman. He met and later married
Sholem Aleichem's daughter, Esther, in 1906. In 1910, Berkowitz published his first
Collected Stories, and soon after that, he began to translate Sholem Aleichem's writings from
Yiddish into
Modern Hebrew. Two years later, he translated
Leo Tolstoy's
Childhood from
Russian into Hebrew. Berkowitz emigrated to the
United States in 1913, on the eve of
World War I. From 1916 to 1919, he edited
HaToren (The Mast), a
Zionist-oriented periodical of high literary quality, and in 1919 he edited the short-lived journal
Miklat (shelter, asylum, refuge or haven). After arriving in Palestine in 1928, he co-edited
Moznayim, the weekly literary organ of the
Hebrew Writers Association, with Yeruham Fishel Lachower. He also adapted several of Sholem Aleichem's plays for
Habima Theatre. ==Awards==