Hayim Nahman Bialik
Hayim Nahman Bialik , also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. He was part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice to the breath of new life in Jewish life. Bialik ultimately came to be recognized as Israels national poet.
Bialik was born in the village of Radi, Volhynia in the Ukrainian part of the Russian Empire to Yitzhak Yosef Bialik, a scholar and businessman, and his wife Dinah . Bialiks father died in 1880, when Bialik wasyears old. In his poems, Bialik romanticized the misery of his childhood, describing seven orphans left behindthough modern biographers believe there were fewer children, including grown stepsiblings who did not need to be supported. Be that as it may, from the ageonwards Bialik was raised in Zhitomir by his Orthodox grandfather, Yaakov Moshe Bialik.
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