MeKhayey Yosef Haim Brenner (Joseph Hayyim) Me-Hayei Yosef Hayim Brenner

Yaari-Poleskin, Jacob (died 1944) Yakov Yaakov

Published by David Sharek, Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel, 1922

About this Item

In Hebrew. VI, 200 pages. 218 x 147 mm. Printed on good quality paper. Not foxed. Yosef Haim Brenner (also Yosef Chaim Brenner)(1881-1921) was a Russian-born Hebrew-language author and one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. He was born to a poor Jewish family in Novi Mlini, Russian Empire, studied at a yeshiva in Pochep, and published his first story, Pat Lechem ("A Loaf of Bread") in HaMelitz, a Hebrew language newspaper, in 1900, followed by a collection of short stories in 1901. In 1902, Brenner was drafted into the Russian army. Two years later, when the Russo-Japanese War broke out, he deserted. He was initially captured, but escaped to London with the help of the General Jewish Labor Bund, which he had joined as a youth. In 1905, he met the Yiddish writer Lamed Shapiro. Brenner lived in an apartment in Whitechapel, which doubled as an office for HaMe'orer, a Hebrew periodical that he edited and published in 1906-07. Brenner married Chaya, with whom he had a son, Uri. Brenner immigrated to Eretz Israel (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909. He worked as a farmer, eager to put his Zionist ideology into practice. But he could not take the strain of manual labor, and soon left to devote himself to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He became an eminent writer, critic and cultural icon of the Jewish and Zionist cultural milieu. He was murdered by Arabs in May 1921 during their Jaffa riots.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MeKhayey Yosef Haim Brenner (Joseph Hayyim) Me-Hayei Yosef Hayim Brenner
• Publisher: David Sharek, Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel
• Publication Date: 1922
• Language: Hebrew
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Judaica