יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner

מעמק עכור Out of a Gloomy Valley

Fiction Drama Essays

Realism Poverty Language Short Stories Jewish social commentary English Arabic Jewish life Diaspora Hebrew literature Modern Hebrew Yosef Haim Brenner Ukrainian Zionism Emotive punctuation Ellipses Warsaw 1900 Modern Hebrew Literature Eastern Europe Experimental Aramaic Yiddish

Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921) was a Ukrainian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Brenner grew up in grinding poverty. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire)...

בחורף In Winter

Fiction History Drama

Realism Poverty Historical Fiction Short Stories Russia Jewish social commentary Hardship Early 20th century Social realism Turn of the Century Antisemitism Hebrew literature Yosef Haim Brenner Modern Hebrew Literature Eastern Europe Massacres

Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921) was a Ukrainian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Brenner grew up in grinding poverty. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire)...

מכאן ומשם From Here and There

History Philosophy Non-Fiction Essays

Literary Criticism Identity Hope social commentary Existentialism Labor Early 20th century Israel Hebrew literature Yosef Haim Brenner Zionism Second Aliyah Palestine Immigration

Yosef Haim Brenner (murdered by Arab terrorists in 1921 at the age of 40) presented in his book "From Here and There" a piercing, soul searching portrayal of the "second aliyah," the dominant immigration into Palestine at the beginning of the twentie...

עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club

This is a bilingual project. The first part, in Hebrew, is the story "Injustice" by Yosef Haim Brenner, written following the conquest of Palestine by the British troops during WWI. The story takes place on the Turkish side of the dividing line betwe...

שכול וכשלון Breakdown and Bereavement

Breakdown and Bereavement, first published in 1920, is the story of a young Jewish immigrant in Palestine in the early 20th century. Like many of Yosef Haim Brenner's protagonists, Hefetz finds that pioneer life under Ottoman rule is a difficult and...

שבעה סיפורים Seven Stories

יוסף חיים ברנר יליד 1881 בנוביה מליני, היום אוקראינה, עלה ארצה בשנת 1909 ונרצח ביפו על ידי ערבים במאורעות תרפ"א (1921). היה מחלוצי הספרות העברית. המודרנית. בהקלטה הנוכחית מוגשים שבעה מסיפוריו המוקדמים.Yosef Haim Brenner was born in 1881 in what is n...

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