The Birthday Party

Avner Holtzman

2002

It was taken on Saturday, March 20, 1937, in the town of Swienciany, which lies on the Polish border with Lithuania approximately 50 miles northeast of Vilna. Nine girls and two boys, together with three women and two men, had gathered on a pleasant spring day in the Svirsky home at 11 Pilsudski Street to celebrate the fourth birthday of the…

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Creator Bio

Avner Holtzman

b. 1956

Avner Holtzman is a professor of Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University, where between 2000 and 2004 he was head of the Katz Research Institute. Since 1987, he has served as director of the M. J. Berdichevsky Archive in Holon. Holtzman has published books on modern Hebrew literature, and has edited numerous scholarly books, among them critical editions of the writings of Bialik and Berdichevsky.

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