Uri Zvi Greenberg

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Uri Zvi Greenberg 1956
Albatros, issue 3/4 1923. Editor Zwi Grünberg

Uri Zvi Greenberg ( pseudonym Tur Malka , also Zwi Grünberg, Tsvi Grinberg, Hebrew: אורי צבי גרינברג, born September 22, 1896 in Bialikamin in Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died May 8, 1981 in Ramat Gan ) was an Israeli, Hebrew and Yiddish Poet and politician .

Life

Grinberg was the son of a well-known Hasidic family and grew up in Lemberg . 1915–1917 he was a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army . Then he deserted. Back in Lviv after the war, he witnessed anti-Semitic pogroms in 1918 , which had a profound influence on him. He now lived in Berlin and Warsaw , where he began to write in Yiddish and Hebrew and in 1923 published the Yiddish art magazine Albatros . In 1924 Greenberg emigrated to the British mandate of Palestine . There he became enthusiastic about the kibbutzim movement and only wrote Hebrew, initially for the magazine Davar , which was an essential language organ of the left-wing Zionist labor movement (see also Histadrut ). After the Hebron massacre in 1929, Greenberg became increasingly militant. He passionately criticized the passivity of the British authorities in the face of the acts of violence in the Palestinian Mandate. He joined the right-wing Irgun and the underground organization Lechi , an offshoot of the Irgun. Since 1930 he was a staunch advocate of Revisionist Zionism and represented this movement at several Zionist congresses in Poland. When the Second World War broke out , he was in Poland, but was able to escape back to Palestine. The rest of his family died in the Holocaust .

After the establishment of the State of Israel, Greenberg joined Menachem Begins Cherut Party in 1948 and was elected to the Knesset in 1949. He lost his seat in the elections for the second legislative term in 1951. After the Six Day War in 1967 he fought for the connection of the West Bank to Israel.

Act

Greenberg's writings are characterized by deep mysticism and Jewish nationalism . His style is expressionistic and was inspired by Walt Whitman . He drew his main topics from the Tanach . Greenberg was convinced that YHWH's covenant with Abraham was the basis of all Jewish life and that there was therefore a categorical difference between Jews and non-Jews. He believed that Israel had been chosen by God and left no doubt about it. He was convinced that the Kingdom of Israel, which had perished with the end of the Davidic-Solomonic Empire , would be rebuilt with the arrival of a Messiah . He saw the task of Hebrew literature in singing about this messianic vision. Although perceived by many as an extremist in Israel, he is valued for the beauty of his poetry. Among other prizes, he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1957 for his services to Hebrew literature . He also received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bar Ilan , Yeshiva University in New York and Tel Aviv .

Selected Works

  • 1919 In tsaytens roysh
  • 1921 Mefisto
  • 1921 Farnachten gold
  • 1923 Krig oyf dem erd
  • 1925 Emah gedolah ve-yareah
  • 1926 Ha-Gavrut Hah-olah
  • 1928 Hazon Ehad Ha-Ligyonot
  • 1928 Anacre'on Al Kotev Ha-Itzavon sha'are shir
  • 1929 Kelev Bayyit
  • 1929 Ezor Magen u-Ne'um Ben Ha-Dam
  • 1937 Sefer Ha-Kitrug veha-emunah
  • 1939 Yerushalayim shel mata
  • 1950 Min Ha-Kahlil U-Min Ha-Kahol
  • 1951 Rehovot hanahar: sefer ha 'iliyot yeh'akoah
  • 1968 Mivhar mishirav
  • 1979 Be-Emtza Ha-olam, Be-Emtza ha-zma'nim
  • 1979 Mivhar Shirim

literature

Web links

Commons : Uri Zvi Greenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Marten-Finnis, Heather Valencia: Language islands: Yiddish journalism in London, Wilna and Berlin 1880 - 1930 . Cologne: Böhlau, 1999, pp. 129-137