Yosef Haim Brenner (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yosef Haim Brenner (Hebrew:, also Yosef Chaim Brenner, born 1881, died 1921) was a Russian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Brenner was born to a poor Jewish family in Novi Mlini, Russian Empire. He studied at a yeshiva in Pochep and published his first story, Pat Lechem ("A Loaf of Bread") in HaMelitz, a Hebrew language newspaper, in 1900, followed by a collection of short stories in 1901. In 1902, Brenner was drafted into the Russian army. Two years later, when the Russo-Japanese War broke out, he deserted. He was initially captured, but escaped to London with the help of the General Jewish Labor Bund which he had joined as a youth. He lived in an apartment in Whitechapel which doubled as an office for HaMe'orer, a Hebrew periodical that he edited and published in 1906-1907. In 1922, Asher Beilin published Brenner in London about this period in Brenner's life.