The Distant Stars of Heaven
Journal: The Jewish Quarterly
Year: 2013

Unlike most of his contemporaries, Tchernikhowky, who was born in the Crimea, had a secular education from his early youth, first at a Russian Gramar School in Odessa and, later, at the Universities of Heidelberg, Germany, and Lausanne, Switzerland, where he obtained his doctor's degree in medicine. In Russia and in Israel—he settled there in 1931—he combined medical practice with his literary work. As a writer he ranges in stature equal with Bialik as one of the foremost modern Hebrew poets. Be