This dissertation analyzes the coexistence of realist and modernist prose in early and mid-twentieth century Hebrew fictional texts. The first chapter focuses on Y. Ch. Brenner's 1911 novel, Mi-kan u-mi-kan (From Here and There). On the one hand, this novel engages the specific,…
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, approximately two million Jews left the Pale of Settlement, fleeing poverty, pogroms, civil war, and revolution. Nearly all of the prominent Hebrew and Yiddish writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emer…
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. Af…
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 …
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 …
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. Af…