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 generation that
made "the great leap" from Imperial Russia's Pale of Settlement to
the metropolitan centers of modernity, and from traditional Jewish
beliefs and way of life to secularism and existentialism. In his
writing he experimented with language and form, but always
attempting to portray life realistically. A highly acerbic critic
of Jewish society, Brenner was relentless in portraying the vices
of both Jewish public life and individual Jews. Most of his
contemporaries not only accepted his critique, but admired him for
his forthrightness and took it as evidence of his honesty and
veracity.
Renowned author and historian Anita Shapira's new biography
illuminates Brenner's life and times, and his relationships with
leading cultural leaders such as Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, Hayim
Nahman Bialik, Israel's National Poet, and many others. Undermining
the accepted myths about his life and his death, his depression,
his relations with writers, women, and men--including the question
of his homoeroticism--this new biography examines Brenner's life in
all its complexity and contradiction.
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