BRENNER (1881–1921) escaped from the Russian army
to London where he worked as a typesetter and editor.
Immigrating to Palestine in 1909, he was killed by Arab
rioters in 1921. Brenner was the most prominent literary
figure in pre-State Israel in his day, and shifted the center
of Hebrew literary activities away from Europe.
This volume includes a large selection of Brenner’s shorter
fiction, including Out of the Depths, One Year, From A to M,
Impressions of a Journey, Nerves (translated by Hillel Halkin)
and the fascinating Memories of Brenner, by the Hebrew poet
David Shimoni. It was translated in the main by the late
David Patterson, former President of the Oxford Centre for
Hebrew and Jewish Studies and by Ezra Spicehandler, who
also contributed the introduction.
This is the second volume in the Toby series of Brenner’s
works in English.
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