Ресейде туған еврей тілінде жазған автор Йосеф Хаим Бренер

Russian born Hebrew language author

Yosef Haim Brenner (יוֹסֵף חַיִּים בְּרֶנֶר; 11 September 1881 – 2 May 1921) was a Hebrew language author from the Russian Empire, and one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature.

Yosef Haim Brenner was born to a poor Jewish family in Нові Млини (Ніжинський район), Russian Empire (today part of Ukraine). He studied at a yeshiva in Pochep, and published his first story, Pat Lechem ("A Loaf of Bread") in Ha Melitz in 1900, followed by a collection of short stories in 1901. In 1902, Brenner was drafted into the Russian army. Two years later, when the Russo Japanese War broke out, he deserted. He was initially captured, but escaped to London with the help of the General Jewish Labor Bund, which he had joined as a youth. In 1905, he met the Yiddish writer Lamed Shapiro. Brenner lived in an apartment in Whitechapel, which doubled as an office for HaMe'orer, a Hebrew periodical that he edited and published in 1906–07. In 1922, Asher Beilin published Brenner in London about this period in Brenner's life. In 1913, Brenner married Chaya Braude, with whom he had a son, Uri. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909. He worked as a farmer, eager to put his Zionist ideology into practice. Unlike A. D. Gordon, however, he could not take the strain of manual labor, and soon left to devote himself to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. According to biographer Anita Shapira, he suffered from depression and problems of sexual identity. This was Alter's preface to Brenner's story, "The Way Out", published in 1919, and set during Turkish and British struggles over Palestine in World War I.

The site of his murder on Kibbutz Galuyot street is now marked by Brenner House, a center for Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, the youth organization of the Histadrut. Kibbutz Givat Brenner was also named for him, while kibbutz Revivim was named in honor of his magazine. The Brenner Prize, one of Israel's top literary awards, is named for him.

A collection of 6 short stories about Jewish life in the diaspora. Yiddish: Warsaw, Literarisher Bleter, 1936. Yiddish: Berlin, Yiddisher Literarisher Ferlag, 1923. English: In Eight Great Hebrew Short Novels, New York, New American Library, 1983. Spanish: In Ocho Obras Maestras de la Narrativa Hebrea, Barcelona, Riopiedras, 1989. French: Paris, Intertextes, 1989; Paris, Noel Blandin, 1991. English: London, Cornell Univ. Press, 1971; Philadelphia, JPS, 1971; London, The Toby Press, 2004. Chinese: Hefei, Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House, 1998. English: Colorado, Westview Press, 1992.