Yaron Golan

Yaron Golan was born in 1949

Yaron Golan was born in Tel Aviv on April 26, 1949, to a family of the Second Aliyah. His father Eliezer, a Technion graduate, owned a heating company, and his mother, Professor Rivka Barkai-Golan, was a microbiologist. He attended the Herzliya Gymnasium, as his parents and grandfather had.

After his army service he studied Hebrew literature and the history of the Land of Israel at the Hebrew University, and earned a master's degree in literature. Under Professor Gershon Shaked he wrote a 770-page thesis on the stories of Nissim Aloni. In 1982 the two published an anthology of Palmach generation writers.

In 1982 he began a doctorate on Yigal Mossinsohn but did not finish it. He left academia and wrote literary criticism for papers such as Davar, Maariv and Haaretz, and a column in the Jerusalem local paper Kol Ha'ir.

In 1986 he founded his publishing house, run by himself and his family without paid staff. It put out about 1,200 titles, including works by Nathan Zach and Avot Yeshurun. Golan died of cardiac arrest on January 23, 2007, and was buried in Tel Aviv.