He loved Tel Aviv, which reminded him of Odessa. Left with no alternative but to leave, Bialik immigrated to Palestine. To the Bolsheviks, Hebrew was a bourgeois and counter-revolutionary language. The new Bolshevik regime in Russia arrested Bialik in 1921 and briefly detained him. Although Bialik was a married man, he appears to have been romantically involved with Jan. In passing, Qedar touches on his relationship with the artist Ira Jan, who illustrated one of his books of poetry. Palestine seemed “antiquated” and did not “pull at his heart.” Bialik was not a “gushing” Zionist, says one of the scholars who offers an appraisal of him. Yet Bialik was not impressed by the sights. Paying his first visit to Palestine in 1909, when it was a neglected and backward province of the Ottoman Empire, he was greeted effusively by Jews. No pacifist, he urged Jews to strike back and wreak vengeance on the antisemitic perpetrators. Prior to the outbreak of violence triggered by the planned evictions of Palestinians from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Turkey had been seeking to mend ties with the Jewish state to curry favor with the Biden administration, and to bust the burgeoning alliance between Israel, Egypt, Greece and Cyprus to counter Turkish claims. Visiting Kishinev shortly after the violence had abated, he was inspired to write one of his most moving poems, The City of Slaughter. As a young man, he settled in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, where his first volume of poetry was published when he was 28.īialik was profoundly influenced by the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev, the first to be photographed. The Fire Cardinal drone, which first appeared at the Taipei trade show, is an air-to-ground strike assault UAV, according to the aviation-news website Alert 5, citing information from the show. Mired in poverty after his father’s death, he was raised by his grandfather.
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