Yehoshua Ḥana Rawnitzki (; 13 September 1859 – 4 May 1944) was a

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publisher, editor, and collaborator of

Hayim Nahman Bialik Hayim Nahman Bialik ( he, חיים נחמן ביאַליק; January 9, 1873 – July 4, 1934), was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. He was part of the vangu ...

Biography

Yehoshua Ḥana Rawnitzki was born to a poor

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family in

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in 1859. He began his

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career in 1879, by contributing first to ''Ha-Kol'', and then to other periodicals. He was the editor and publisher of ''Pardes'', a literary collection best known for publishing

's first poem, "El ha-Tzippor," in 1892. With

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(under the pseudonym Eldad), Rawnitzki (under the pseudonym Medad) published a series of

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s entitled ''Kevurat Soferim'' ("The Burial of Writers"). From 1908 through 1911, Rawnitzki and Bialik published ''Sefer Ha-Aggadah'' ("The Book of Legends") a compilation of

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from the

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, the two

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s and the

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literature. Rawnitzki moved to

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in 1921, where he took part in the founding of the

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publishing house. He died there in May 1944.

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