Uri Zvi Grinberg

Uri Zvi Greenberg (Hebrew: אורי צבי גרינברג, * on September 22, 1896 in Bialikamin, ( Biliy fireplace or Bialy Kamien ), Lviv, † May 8, 1981 in Ramat Gan ) was an Israeli Hebrew and Yiddish poet and politician.

Life

Greenberg was the son of a famous Hasidic family and grew up in Lviv, which later belonged first to Austria-Hungary to Ukraine. 1915-1917 he was a soldier of the Austro -Hungarian army. Then he deserted. Back in Lviv, he was a witness in 1918 anti-Semitic pogroms, which would mark him deeply. He then lived in Berlin and Warsaw, where he began to write in Yiddish and Hebrew. 1924 emigrated Greenberg into the British Mandate of Palestine. There, he was enthusiastic about the Kibbuzimbewegung and wrote only in Hebrew, first for the magazine Davar, which is an essential organ of speech of the left-wing Zionist labor movement (see also Histadrut ) was. After the massacre of Hebron in 1929 Greenberg became increasingly militant. He criticized the passivity of the British authorities passionately in light of the violence in the Palestinian Mandate. He joined the right-wing Irgun and Lehi underground organization, an offshoot of the Irgun, on. Since 1930 he was a decided partisan of the revisionist wing of Zionism and represented the revisionist movement on several Zionist congresses in Poland. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was talking in Poland, but was able to escape back to Palestine. The rest of his family arrived in the Holocaust died.

After the establishment of Israel Greenberg joined Menachem Begin's Herut Party in 1948 and was elected to the Knesset in 1949. In the elections for the second term in 1951, he lost the seat after the 1967 Six Day War, he fought for the connection of the West Bank to Israel.

Work

Greenberg's writings are characterized by deep mysticism and Jewish nationalism. His style is expressionistic and was inspired by Walt Whitman. He drew from the Tanakh Its main themes. Greenberg was convinced that Yahweh's covenant with Abraham was based all Jewish life and therefore there was a categorical difference between Jews and non - Jews. He was convinced that Israel had been chosen by God and left no room for doubt. He was convinced that the Kingdom of Israel, which went down with the end of the Davidic - Solomonic empire, would re-erected by the coming of a Messiah. The task of Hebrew literature, he saw it, to sing this messianic vision. Although it is perceived in Israel by many as an extremist, he is appreciated for the beauty of his poetry. In addition to other awards for his contribution to Hebrew literature in 1957 the Israel Prize, he was awarded. He also received an honorary doctorate from Bar Ilan University, Yeshiva University in New York and Tel Aviv.

Selected Works

Source

  • Novelguide.com (English) Link not freely accessible.
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