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Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky

Died in 1944

Hayim Nahman Bialik, born in 1873 in Volhynia, lost his father as a child, grew up with an Orthodox grandfather in Zhytomyr and attended the Volozhin yeshiva before going to Odessa. Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, born in Odessa in 1859, a journalist and publisher, had published Bialik's first poem; the two men founded the Moriah house at the beginning of the century, later renamed Dvir. They left Russia in 1921 and met again in Tel Aviv, where Bialik settled in 1924. Bialik died in Vienna in 1934, Ravnitzky in Tel Aviv in 1944.

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