Hayim Hazaz

Hayim Hazaz was born in 1898 in Sidorovichi, near Kiev; his father worked in timber operations, and the family lived for a long time in the forests, the setting of his first novel. A witness to the revolution and the civil war, he left Russia in 1921 by way of Sevastopol, lived for two years in Istanbul among pioneers whom he taught Hebrew, then in Paris, where he published his first stories. Settled in Jerusalem in 1931, he was in 1953 the first winner of the Israel Prize for literature, and died in Jerusalem in 1973.

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