Yosef Haim Brenner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yosef Haim Brenner write by Anita Shapira. This book was released on 2014-12-17. Yosef Haim Brenner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Hebrew literature. Born in 1881 to a poor Jewish family in Russia, Brenner published his first story, "A Loaf of Bread," in 1900. After being drafted into the Russian army, he deserted to England and later immigrated to Palestine where he became an eminent writer, critic and cultural icon of the Jewish and Zionist cultural milieu. His life was tragically ended in the violent 1921 Jaffa riots. In a nutshell, Brenner's life story encompasses the generation that made "the great leap" from Imperial Russia's Pale of Settlement to the metropolitan centers of modernity, and from traditional Jewish beliefs and way of life to secularism and existentialism. In his writing he experimented with language and form, but always attempting to portray life realistically. A highly acerbic critic of Jewish society, Brenner was relentless in portraying the vices of both Jewish public life and individual Jews. Most of his contemporaries not only accepted his critique, but admired him for his forthrightness and took it as evidence of his honesty and veracity. Renowned author and historian Anita Shapira's new biography illuminates Brenner's life and times, and his relationships with leading cultural leaders such as Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Israel's National Poet, and many others. Undermining the accepted myths about his life and his death, his depression, his relations with writers, women, and men—including the question of his homoeroticism—this new biography examines Brenner's life in all its complexity and contradiction.
Breakdown and Bereavement
Breakdown and Bereavement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breakdown and Bereavement write by Joseph Ḥayyim Brenner. This book was released on 2004. Breakdown and Bereavement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Breakdown and Bereavement is set in a Jewish settlement in Palestine in the years before World War I, when the tragic pattern of Arab-Jewish relations was taking shape. The hero, Hefetz, is a typical Brenner character, a wanderer in search of a spiritual homeland. --Publisher description.
Zionism and Melancholy
Zionism and Melancholy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zionism and Melancholy write by Nitzan Lebovic. This book was released on 2019-04-24. Zionism and Melancholy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nitzan Lebovic claims that political melancholy is the defining trait of a generation of Israelis born between the 1960s and 1990s. This cohort came of age during wars, occupation and intifada, cultural conflict, and the failure of the Oslo Accords. The atmosphere of militarism and conservative state politics left little room for democratic opposition or dissent. Lebovic and others depict the failure to respond not only as a result of institutional pressure but as the effect of a long-lasting "left-wing melancholy." In order to understand its grip on Israeli society, Lebovic turns to the novels and short stories of Israel Zarchi. For him, Zarchi aptly describes the gap between the utopian hope present in Zionism since its early days and the melancholic reality of the present. Through personal engagement with Zarchi, Lebovic develops a philosophy of melancholy and shows how it pervades Israeli society.
Thirst
Thirst - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thirst write by Michael Cecilione. This book was released on 1996. Thirst available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cassandra Hall meets her new lover at a Greenwich Village poetry reading and learns that he's a vampire. Soon Cassandra descends into a deeper realm of exotic thirst and unspeakable passion, where she must confront the dark side of her own sexuality . . . and a beautiful rival who threatens her earthly soul.
Out of the Depths & Other Stories
Out of the Depths & Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Out of the Depths & Other Stories write by Joseph Ḥayyim Brenner. This book was released on 2008. Out of the Depths & Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains a selection of Brenner's shorter fiction, including 'One Year' and 'Impressions of a Journey'.
