Haim hazaz biography

Haim Hazaz was an Israeli novelist.
Haim Hazaz was an Israeli novelist.
Haim Hazaz (1898-1973) was born in the Ukraine and spent his childhood in a small village with a mixed population of gentiles and Jews.

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Haim Hazaz

Haim Hazaz (1898-1973) was born in the Ukraine and spent his childhood in a small village with a mixed population of gentiles and Jews. He received a traditional Jewish education, but at the age of sixteen he left the village to pursue a secular education in Kiev, Kharkov and Moscow. In 1921 he left Russia and spent a year and a half in Constantinople with Zionist pioneers. He then traveled to Paris, where he lived for the next nine years. In Paris he wrote his first fiction — three stories on the Russian revolution and the poetic story “Bridegroom of Blood”, which was praised by T.S. Eliot.

In the summer of 1928 he visited Berlin, where he witnessed the growth of the Nazi movement and sensed the forthcoming catastrophe. In Berlin he conceived the idea for his play The End of Days, although he did not begin writing it until he arrived in pre-state Israel, where it was first published in 1933. After his arrival in spring 1931 Hazaz made his home in Jerusalem, where he lived and worked until his death, and where he is buried on the Mount of Olives.

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The room of Haim Hazaz

“The Hebrew literature should be one of the great literatures among the nations, great in settings and cultures, great in deed and exploit – a reflection of the world entire, as we are dispersed among all lands and nations.” Haim Hazaz

Haim Hazaz was born in 1898, in Russia. In 1921 he emigrated to Turkey, and later moved to Paris. In 1931 he settled in Jerusalem, where he lived and worked until his death in 1973. His works, which were translated into many languages, won him honorary degrees and worldwide fame.

Haim Hazaz’s study offers visitors a glimpse of the creative environment of one of the greatest Hebrew writers of all time. His desk, his library and the other objects in the room were moved to Mishkenot Sha’ananim from the apartment at 18 Hovevey Zion Street, Jerusalem, where Aviva and Haim Hazaz lived.

Haim Hazaz’s library, which is displayed here only in part, comprised some twelve thousand volumes in Hebrew, Russian, French, Yiddish and other languages. Its remarkable composition reveals something of the w

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Haim Hazaz

Israeli novelist (1898–1973)

Haim Hazaz (Hebrew: חיים הזז; 16 September 1898 – 24 March 1973) was an Israeli novelist.^[1]

Biography

Haim Hazaz was born in the village of Sidorovichi, Kiev Governorate in the Russian Empire, the same village of future prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's family.^[2]^[3] His father, a Breslov Hasidic Jew, was a timber agent and the family spent long periods of time in the forests around Kyiv. Hazaz was taught mainly by private tutors and educated in both the traditional Hebrew texts and the Russian language. In 1914, at the age of 16, Hazaz left home and joined a group of Jewish students in Radomyshl, preparing for matriculation examinations. Hazaz then became more familiar with classic and contemporary works of Russian authors. At that time. Hazaz was introduced to the works of the great Hebrew poet, Hayim Nahman Bialik in Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Russian translation. This led him to other modern Hebrew writers, and influenced his decision to start writing poetry in this language.

In 1918 Hazaz publ