Hayim Nahman Bialik

Hayim Nahman Bialik was born on 9 January 1873 in Radi, in Volhynia. Fatherless in childhood, he was raised by his grandfather in Zhytomyr, then studied at the Volozhin yeshiva, where he turned toward the Jewish Enlightenment. Settled in Odessa, he was a teacher and a timber merchant before making his living from publishing: he founded the Moriah and then the Dvir houses. He left Russia for Berlin in 1921, settled in Tel Aviv in 1924 and was received there as the national poet. He died in Vienna on 4 July 1934.

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• PoetryIn the City of Slaughterבעיר ההרגהHayim Nahman Bialik · 1904Literature