Yuḥanon Qashisho
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
availability: Copyright ©2011 by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Distributed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

Yuḥanon Qashisho

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yuhanon-Qashisho http://syriaca.org/bibl/623 614 http://syriaca.org/person/833 [person] [Teacher and author.]

(1918–2001) [Syr. Orth.]

He was born in Azekh and immigrated to Qamishli where he studied Syriac under George Māʿilo. He taught in Aleppo , then lived in Bethlehem where his father was a priest. In 1948 he went to Syria where he taught, and worked in journalism. In 1970 he immigrated to Sweden.

His writings include: 1. Readers in seven parts which were published in Qamishli, and an intermediary primer with Sulayman Ḥanno . 2. A reader in 3 parts titled Ṣafro ṭobo (Sweden, 1983). 3. Two pocket dictionaries, one Syriac-Swedish, and the other Swedish-Syriac (I have no publication information). 4. A number of short stories for juveniles (1982, 1983). 5. He wrote over 200 poems many of which are published in various periodicals, especially Ḥuyada, and in a collection titled Simto d-mimre w-mušḥoto (1993).

Sources

Abūna, Adab, 577.
Munūfar Barṣūm, Aḍwāʾ, 142–4.

George A. Kiraz