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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989
Chaim Bialik
Timeless Poet
CAROL NOVIS
Special to The Jewish News
f modern-day Israel can
be said to have a national
soul, that soul is probably
expressed best through the
poetry, essays and children's
rhymes of Chaim Bialik, the
"father of modern Israeli
literature."
Bialik's work expressed
conflicting feelings about
traditional faith, a deep
moral sense, love of nature
and above all, belief in the
necessity for a national
homeland for the Jewish peo-
ple; concerns tha still deeply
engage Israelis today. That
might explain why Bialik,
almost half a century after
his death, retains a profound
influence on Israeli society at
every level.
Bialik had, in some
respects, a paradoxical life.
His childhood had unhappy
elements, mingled with
periods of ecstatic joy — which
he found in nature and lear-
ning. Both feelings are ex-
pressed in his poetry.
Born into a poor family, his
father, a Ukrainian lumbei
merchant's clerk and later a
tavern keeper died when
Bialik was seven.
In "My Song" Bialik recalls
his mother and the pain he
experienced as a sensitive
child. He writes
My heart knew well that tears
fell in the dough;
And when she gave her
children warm new bread
bread of her baking, bread of
her pain, her woe,
I swallowed sighs that seeped
into my bones.
In later life, however, he was
able reconcile many feelings
and produced such joyous
classic Israeli nurery rhymes
as "Bird is Nest," "Over the
Sea" and "Swing."
After his father died, in
1880, Bialik's mother, unable
to support him, sent him to
live it his grandfather. He was
a stern traditionalist, who
subjected the boy to a strict
scholastic regimen. Trauma-
tized by the family separa-
tion, he wrote poignant
poems about the event, even
in old age.
He studied in the local
cheder until he turned 13,
when he moved to a yeshiva.
During this period Bialik
began to read and enjoy
secular Russian poetry. At 15
he was sent, for advanced
study, to the famous yeshiva
of Volozhin. There, he hoped
to bridge the gap between
religious and secular studies,