Yosef Haim Brenner

Yosef Haim Brenner was born on 11 September 1881 at Novi Mlyny, in Ukraine, into a poor family, and studied at the yeshiva of Pochep, where he became friends with Uri Nissan Gnessin. Conscripted into the Russian army at the end of 1901, he deserted at the start of the Russo-Japanese War; arrested, he was freed by Bund activists and reached London, where he brought out almost single-handedly the journal Ha-Meorer. Settled in Palestine in 1909, he worked the land and then taught, notably at the Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He was killed on 2 May 1921 near Jaffa, during the riots of that year.

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• NovelBreakdown and Bereavementשכול וכישלוןYosef Haim Brenner · 1920Literature