Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War by Avigdor Hameiri PAPERBACK

Academic Studies Press

\u201C[A] gripping mix of stories and poems\u2026 interwoven with moments of quiet, affecting beauty\u2026 This remarkable work rescues an important 20th-century Israeli voice from obscurity.\u201D \u2014 Publishers Weekly\nThis book represents an anthology of Avigdor Hameiri\u2019s ten most compelling war stories and poetry. His war stories are unique, and different from his Hebrew writer contemporaries in that they mix the supernatural and macabre with war, pogroms, and antisemitism. These stories and poems reflect like no other the unique complexity of the Jewish soldier\u2019s experience of the most vicious and shocking war the world had witnessed to date \u2014 the battles, the agony, the dilemmas faced by the Jewish soldier, bravery versus cowardice, the notion of imminent death, breaking the sixth commandment (Thou Shalt\n\nUnder a Bloodred Sky\nAvigdor Hameiri's War Stories and Poetry\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery us;