Uri Nissan Gnessin

Uri Nissan Gnessin, born in 1879 in Starodub, in the Chernigov governorate, grew up in Pochep, where his father, a rabbi, headed the yeshiva; there he studied with Brenner, who remained his friend. Called to Warsaw by Nahum Sokolow for the newspaper Ha-Tsefira, he then lived in poverty in Kiev, Ekaterinoslav, Vilnius and Pochep, and in 1907 passed through London to see Brenner and through Palestine. He was one of the first to practise stream of consciousness in Hebrew. In poor health with his heart for years, he died in Warsaw on 6 March 1913.

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