1/9 | Birthday of Chaim Nachman Bialik
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 9 Birthday of Chaim Nachman Bialik, Poet Chaim Nachman Bialik was born on January 9, 1873 in the rural Volhynian settlement of Rad’i (Рады) near Zhytomyr (the settlement no longer exists) and was raised in Zhytomyr. He began a traditional Jewish education in kheder and bes-medresh, and attended the prestigious yeshiva at Volozhin. It was at yeshiva that Bialik devoted himself to the acquisition of secular education. He left Volozhin for Odessa in 1891 to join the emerging Jewish (Hebrew and Yiddish) literary scene. In the early years of the 20th...
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