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 celebrated Jewish poet, penned it after visiting the Russian city where a mob of two thousand…