Uri Zvi Greenberg

Uri Zvi Greenberg was born in 1896, or in 1894 according to several dictionaries, at Bilyi Kamin, in Galicia, into a renowned Hasidic family, and grew up in Lemberg. Mobilised in 1915 in the Austro-Hungarian army, he fought on the Serbian front, then witnessed the Lemberg pogrom in November 1918. A Yiddish poet in Warsaw, where he led the avant-garde journals Khalyastre and Albatros, he passed through Berlin and arrived in Palestine at the end of 1923. Having turned to Revisionist Zionism, he sat in the first Knesset for Herut. He received the Israel Prize in 1957 and the Bialik Prize three times, and died in 1981.

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• Poetryרחובות הנהרUri Zvi Greenberg · 1951not translated into EnglishLiterature