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Author Shapira, Anita, author.

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

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Note "Originally published in Hebrew in 2008 under the title Brenner: Sippur hayim."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim, 1881-1921.
Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim, 1881-1921.
Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim, 1881-1921.
Authors, Hebrew -- Biography.
Authors, Hebrew.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Zionists -- Biography.
Zionists -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Berris, Anthony, translator.
Added Title Brener. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014097413
Other Form: Print version: Shapira, Anita, author. Brener. English. Yosef Haim Brenner 9780804785273 (DLC) 2014029030 (OCoLC)880237397
ISBN 9780804793131 electronic book
0804793131 electronic book
9780804785273
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