שכול וכשלון Breakdown and Bereavement
Author: first_name: יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim
last_name: Brenner
Language: Hebrew
Year: 1920

<i>Breakdown and Bereavement,</i> first published in 1920, is the story of a young Jewish immigrant in Palestine in the early 20th century. Like many of Yosef Haim Brenner's protagonists, Hefetz finds that pioneer life under Ottoman rule is a difficult and depressing path to a Zionist homeland. Brenner, himself a Russian-born immigrant to Palestine, was one of the first and most important authors of modern Hebrew literature. He was killed during the Jaffa riots of 1921. (Summary by LA Walden)