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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapira, Anita, author.

Contributor:

Berris, Anthony, translator.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Standardized Title:

Brener. English

ברנר. אנגלית http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014097413

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim, 1881-1921.

Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim.

Authors, Hebrew--Biography.

Authors, Hebrew.

Zionists--Biography.

Zionists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This study follows the life story of the writer, critic, and intellectual Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the leading figures of the Hebrew renaissance at the turn of the nineteenth century. It describes Brenner as a representative of the generation of young Jews who were exposed to modernity, underwent an identity crisis, and embraced Jewish nationalism as their way of coping with the 'death of God' and their deep attachment to the Jewish people, Jewish culture and its languages.

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804785273

0804785279

OCLC:

880237397

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