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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787251803321

Autore

Shapira Anita

Titolo

Yosef Haim Brenner : a life / / Anita Shapira ; translated by Anthony Berris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8047-9313-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (489 p.)

Collana

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Disciplina

892.43/5

Soggetti

Authors, Hebrew

Zionists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in Hebrew in 2008 under the title Brenner: Sippur hayim."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The emergence of a writer, 1881-1901 -- In the Imperial Russian Army, 1901-1904 -- London, 1904-1906 -- London, 1906-1908 -- Lvov, 1908-1909 -- In Palestine, 1909-1911 -- The Jerusalem years, 1911-1914 -- Wartime, 1914-1918 -- Under British rule, 1918-1921 -- Days in May, 1921 -- De mortuis.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Hebrew literature. Born in 1881 to a poor Jewish family in Russia, Brenner published his first story, ""A Loaf of Bread,"" in 1900. After being drafted into the Russian army, he deserted to England and later immigrated to Palestine where he became an eminent writer, critic and cultural icon of the Jewish and Zionist cultural milieu. His life was tragically ended in the violent 1921 Jaffa riots.In a nutshell, Brenner's life story encompasses the generat