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Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
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...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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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
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Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y
Leaving the real at the end of the road : S. Y. Abramovitz's The Travels of Benjamin the Third -- Between realism and modernism : Brenner's mimetic poetics of fragmentation -- A mad dog's attack on secularized Hebrew : Agnon's Only Yesterday --...
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Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur e.V. an der Universität Leipzig, Bibliothek
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Leaving the real at the end of the road : S. Y. Abramovitz's The Travels of Benjamin the Third -- Between realism and modernism : Brenner's mimetic poetics of fragmentation -- A mad dog's attack on secularized Hebrew : Agnon's Only Yesterday -- Modernist encounters with the national narrative : land and identity in S. Yizhar's early fiction