Collection: Hayim Nahman Bialik

Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is widely considered the greatest Hebrew literary figure of his age. Born in the Ukrainian village of Radi, he was orphaned at the age of seven and sent to live with his pious grandparents. At seventeen he left for the famous Volozhin Yeshiva in Lithuania and then for Odessa, where he emerged as the youngest of a remarkable group of Hebrew writers and intellectuals. He and his wife, Manya, made their home in Odessa for more than twenty years but were forced to flee the newly established Soviet Union in 1921 for Germany. In 1924, he set sail for British Mandatory Palestine. He died in Vienna.