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Author Shapira, Anita, author.

Title Yosef Haim Brenner : a life / Anita Shapira ; translated by Anthony Berris
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes "Originally published in Hebrew in 2008 under the title Brenner: Sippur hayim."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim, 1881-1921.
Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim, 1881-1921
Authors, Hebrew -- Biography
Zionists -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel.
Authors, Hebrew
Zionists
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Berris, Anthony, translator.
ISBN 9780804793131
0804793131
Other Titles Brener. English