Revolutionary Chapters

Chaim Hazaz

1924

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The war went on and would not be stopped. On the contrary. It proved futile to hold it to any schedule or limit. At no prearranged time would the land be quiet, not at harvest time, not near winter, and not in the spring.

At harvest time, and near winter, and also in the spring it was as if the war had just begun setting to work in earnest.

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Chaim Hazaz

1898–1973

The Hebrew novelist and short-story writer Chaim Hazaz was born in a village in the province of Kiev and received a traditional Jewish education. He left home at age sixteen and lived a peripatetic life until 1921 in Russian cities. During these years of turbulence and upheaval, he witnessed events that became the foundation of his works. From 1921 to 1931, he lived in Istanbul, Paris, and Berlin. He settled in Jerusalem in 1931 and remained there the rest of his life. Central to most of his work is the tension between the old Jewish world and the wish for redemption through political movements such as Zionism. He was one of the most popular Hebrew writers of his time.

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