Hayim Nahman Bialik : poet of Hebrew / Avner Holtzman ; translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf.

Format:

Archive

Book

Author/Creator:

Holtzman, Avner, author.

Contributor:

Scharf, Orr, translator.

Series:

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

Jewish lives

Standardized Title:

חיים נחמן ביאליק. אנגלית

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934.

Bialik, Hayyim Nahman.

Authors, Hebrew--Biography.

Authors, Hebrew.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 250 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"A mere forty poems, published in journals over the course of [a] decade and not yet assembled in a book, established [Bialik's] reputation in the community of Hebrew literature readers and spontaneously crowned him as the Hebrew national poet, all before he reached thirty ..."--Cover.

"A mere forty poems, published in journals over the course of [a] decade and not yet assembled in a book, established [Bialik's] reputation in the community of Hebrew literature readers and spontaneously crowned him as the Hebrew national poet, all before he reached thirty..."--Cover.

Contents:

Zhitomir, 1873-1890

A poet on the rise, 1890-1900

Odessa: the marvelous decade, 1900-1911

Turbulence and transition, 1911-1924

Tel Aviv, 1924-1934.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish Book of the Year, Winner, 2014 (for Jewish Lives series)

ISBN:

9780300200669

0300200668

OCLC:

953985607