Poet Leah Goldberg Is Born

Poet Leah Goldberg Is Born

May 29, 1911 Poet Leah Goldberg is born in Königsberg, Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia. Raised mostly in Kovno, Lithuania, Goldberg begins writing poetry in Hebrew and Russian around age 12. She studies at the Universities…

<span class="cie-plus-title">Tel Aviv Is Founded</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Tel Aviv Is FoundedCIE+

Sixty-six families gathered on the sand dunes outside of Jaffa and selected lots for property in a new neighborhood called Ahuzat Bayit (“Homestead”) that became the first modern Jewish city, Tel Aviv.

<span class="cie-plus-title">Writer Ben-Gavriel Is Born</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Writer Ben-Gavriel Is BornCIE+

September 15, 1891 Austrian-Israeli writer Moshe Yaacov Ben-Gavriel is born Eugen Hoeflich in Vienna, Austria. He begins writing at a young age in German, particularly in the expressionist style. He serves as an officer in…

Today in Israeli History|September 15, 1891
<span class="cie-plus-title">Writer Yitzhaq Shami Is Born</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Writer Yitzhaq Shami Is BornCIE+

August 4, 1888 Yitzhaq Shami, one of the earliest writers of modern Hebrew literature, is born as Yitzhaq Sarwi to an Arabic-speaking father and a Ladino-speaking mother in Hebron. He takes the name Shami, first…