biography
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Bialik, Hayyim Nahman
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also known as Chaim Hachman
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pronunciation:
[beealik]
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| lived:
| (1873–1934)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in the Ukraine. He studied the Talmud in Odessa, becoming literary editor of the weekly Hashiloah and active in literary circles. His first poem ‘To a Bird’ was published at this time. In 1921 Maxim Gorky helped him to emigrate to Berlin, where he set up the Dvir Publishing House. In 1924 he resettled in Tel Aviv, taking the publishing house with him. Regarded by many as the greatest Hebrew poet of modern times, his works include the posthumously published The Writings of H N Bialik (1938), Collected Poems - Critical Edition (1983), and a collection of stories about the Bible and Jewish history, The Book of Legends: Sefer Ha-Agaddar: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash (1992). |
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