מעמק עכור Out of a Gloomy Valley

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

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Authors: יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner In Year : 1900

Book Language: Hebrew

Audiobook: מעמק עכור Out of a Gloomy Valley

01 - A Loaf of Bread
02 - Summer Nights
03 - Dead
04 - Commandment
05 - At Night, part 1
06 - At Night, part 2
07 - Wanderings, part 1
08 - Wanderings, part 2

Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921) was a Ukrainian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Brenner grew up in grinding poverty. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909. He worked as a farmer, eager to put his Zionist ideology into practice. Later he devoted himself to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He was murdered in southern Tel Aviv in May 1921 in the course of the anti-Jewish Arab riots known as the "massacres of 1921". Brenner was very much an "experimental" writer, both in his use of language and in literary form. With Modern Hebrew still in its infancy, Brenner improvised with an intriguing mixture of Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, English and Arabic. In his attempt to portray life realistically, his work is full of emotive punctuation and ellipses. Out Of A Gloomy Valley was his first book published in Warsaw 1900. It is a collection of 6 short stories about Jewish life in the diaspora. (Summary by Wikipedia and Omri Lernau)