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Text in vocalized Hebrew. Poetry 244 pages : portrait ; 241 x 160 mm. Zalman (Zalkind) Shneour (1887 Shklov, now Belarus, then the Russian Empire - 20 February 1959 New York) a scion of the Schneerson dynasty that has led the Lubavitch Hasidic movement from its inception. He was a Yiddish and Hebrew poet and novelist. At age 13 he left for Odessa, the center of Hebrew literary activity and Zionism, where he was befriended by Bialik. He left for Warsaw in 1902, where he was in the editorial office of the Hebrew children?s weekly ?Olam katan, in which his first poems for children were printed. In that same year, he published his first ?adult? Hebrew and Yiddish poems in different Warsaw publications. In 1904, he moved to Vilna, where he worked for the Hebrew periodical Ha-Zeman (in which he published poems and prose, including his first extended novella, Mavet [Death]. He moved to Vilnius in 1904, where he published poems and a collection of stories. The poems were extremely successful, and they appeared in many editions. In 1907 he moved to Paris to study Natural Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature, at the Sorbonne. He traveled throughout Europe from 1908 to 1913, and also visited North Africa. At the start of World War I Zalman Shneur was in Berlin. During the years of the war, he worked in a hospital and studied at the University of Berlin. After WW I he gave up medicine, returned to Paris in 1923, staying there until 1940, when Germany invaded France. He managed to flee to Spain, and from there to New York City in 1941. He stayed in the United States until the early 1950s when he relocated to Israel, living there intermittently in the last decade of his life. Shneur was awarded the Bialik Prize for Literature and the Israel Prize for literature. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 012346
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