The Poetry and Essays of Uri Zvi Grinberg

This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet, Uri Zvi Grinberg, and the Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine from 1923-1937.

Tamar Wolf-Monzon is an Israeli Full Professor of Hebrew Literature at Bar-Ilan University. She is the editor of the Hebrew periodical Criticism and Interpretation. Her research focuses on Hebrew poetry written in the early 20th century in its historical, social, cultural and linguistic contexts.

Introduction 1. "The time for the East has come" 2. "The proletarians in Israel called me to be their poet" 3. Toward the Mandate Government in Jerusalem 4. "Love for my despicable Jews" 5. "A tractate of dog-barks in punctuated letters" 6. UZG's process of leaving the Labor Movement 7. Rhetorical figures as a means for framing reality 8. Indictment and faith: UZG and Kibbutz Mishmar ha-Emek Conclusion