Exposing Ezekiel: Embodied Prophecy in Bialik’s ‘Be-‘ir haharegah’
Hayyim Nachman Bialik’s ‘Be-‘ir haharegah‘ (‘In the City of Slaughter’) remains one of the most powerful literary responses to the Kishinev Pogrom. Bialik, a…
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