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44-639: The city was named after the poet Hayim Nahman Bialik . In 1924, Ephraim and Sabina Katz, who had immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from the Kingdom of Romania , were the first Jews in modern times to settle in the Zevulun Valley along the Haifa Bay . Their farm was destroyed in the 1929 Palestine riots . The one house that survived the riots, Beit Katz, was bequeathed to Kiryat Bialik in 1959 and designated for public use. The town of Kiryat Bialik

88-719: A museum dedicated to the history of the city, located in Beit Katz, known as Museum of the History of Kiryat Bialik. Additionally, within the city is the Kiryon Shopping Mall  [ HE ] , one of the largest shopping malls in the country and the largest in the north. The city has a promenade named after Shimon Peres along the Gedora stream, stretching over several kilometers, starting from Rabin Square in

132-521: A more scientific text and created, arguably, the first modern commentary to a Seder of Mishnah that included, in its introduction, a summary of the content as well as all of the relevant biblical passages. In the 1950s, under the direction of Hanoch Albeck , the Bialik Institute published a commentary on the entire Mishnah, an expansion of Bialik's project. In 1919 in Odessa, Bialik founded

176-545: A number of residents. On September 22, 2024, during a fourth wave of rocket fire from Hezbollah , Kiryat Bialik was hit by rockets, injuring three people and damaging two houses. Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that two men, both in their 70s, and a 16-year-old girl were wounded by shrapnel. One of the men was in moderate condition, while the other two individuals sustained light injuries. All three were transported to Rambam Hospital in Haifa for treatment. According to CBS ,

220-436: A publishing house aimed at issuing Hebrew classics and school texts. He translated into Hebrew various European works, such as William Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar , Friedrich Schiller 's William Tell , Miguel de Cervantes ' novel Don Quixote , Heinrich Heine 's poems, and S. Ansky 's The Dybbuk . Throughout the years 1899–1915, Bialik published about 20 of his Yiddish poems in differen periodicals throughout

264-557: A report. In response to his findings, Bialik wrote his epic poem " In the City of Slaughter " (originally published under the name "Massa Nemirov"), a powerful statement of anguish at the situation of the Jews. The poem's condemnation of passivity against anti-Semitic violence is said to have inspired thousands of Jewish youths to cast off their pacifism and join the Russian underground against

308-710: A time, he served as a bookkeeper in his father-in-law's lumber business in Korostyshiv , near Kyiv . This proved unsuccessful so, in 1897, he moved to Sosnowiec , a small town in the Dąbrowa Basin in Vistula Land in Congress Poland , which was controlled by the Russian Empire. There, Bialik worked both as a Hebrew teacher and, to earn extra income, a coal merchant . In 1900, feeling depressed by

352-485: Is destroyed… And you will come out into the road— Acacias are blooming and pouring their aroma, And their blooms are like fluff, and they smell as though of blood. And their sweet fumes will enter your breast, as though deliberately, Beckoning you to springtime, and to life, and to health; And the dear little sun warms and, teasing your grief, Splinters of broken glass burn with a diamond fire— God sent everything at once, everyone feasted together: The sun, and

396-468: Is honored as Israel's national poet. Bialik House , his former home at 22 Bialik Street in Tel Aviv, has been converted into a museum and a center for literary events. The Bialik Prize for literature was established by the municipality of Tel Aviv ; Kiryat Bialik , a suburb of Haifa, and Givat Hen , a moshav bordering the city of Raanana , are named after him. The research body and publishing house,

440-564: Is named Herzl-Bialik and the Jewish school in Rosario , Argentina is named after him. Bialik's poems have been translated into at least 30 languages, with some set to music as popular songs. These poems, and the songs based on them, have become an essential part of the education and culture of modern Israel and throughout the Jewish world. Bialik died in Vienna , Austria , on July 4, 1934, from

484-641: The Bialik Institute , is named after him. He is the only person to have two streets named after him in the same Israeli city – Bialik Street and Hen Boulevard in Tel Aviv. There is a Bialik Hebrew Day School in Toronto, ON, Canada; a Bialik High School in Montreal, QC, Canada, and a cross-communal Jewish Zionist school in Melbourne called Bialik College ; in Caracas, Venezuela , the Jewish community school

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528-594: The Hebrew Writers Association , a position he retained for the rest of his life. That year, he founded the Oneg Shabbat society of Tel Aviv , which sponsored communal gatherings on Shabbat afternoons to study Torah and sing. Even though he was not an observant Jew, Bialik believed that public observance of Shabbat was essential to preserving the Jewish people. In response to criticism regarding his community activism, Bialik responded: "Show me

572-661: The Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin . Alone and penniless, Bialik made his living teaching Hebrew . The 1892 Bialik published his first poem, El Hatzipor "To the Bird", which expresses a longing for Zion , in a booklet edited by Yehoshua Hana Rawnitzki (1859–1944), which opened the doors into the Jewish literary circles in Odessa. There, he joined the Hovevei Zion movement where he befriended

616-596: The Russian Empire to Itzik Yosef Bialik, a wood merchant from Zhytomyr , and his wife, Dinah Priveh. He had an older brother Sheftel (born in 1862) and two sisters Chenya-Ides (born in 1871) and Blyuma (born in 1875). When Bialik was 8 years old, his father died. His mother took him to Zhytomyr to live with his Orthodox grandfather, Yankl-Moishe Bialik. Bialik would not see his mother for over twenty years, when he brought her to Odessa to live with him. In Zhytomyr, Bialik explored European literature alongside

660-591: The Czar, the founding of Jewish self-defense groups in the Russian Empire, and, later on, the Haganah in Palestine . …Get up and walk through the city of the massacre, And with your hand touch and lock your eyes On the cooled brain and clots of blood Dried on tree trunks, rocks, and fences; it is they. Go to the ruins, to the gaping breaches, To walls and hearths, shattered as though by thunder: Concealing

704-649: The Dvir publishing house. The institution, now based in Israel, is known today as Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir after it was purchased by the Zmora-Bitan publishing house in 1986, and subsequently merged with Kinneret Publishing. It was in Odessa, where BIalik befriended the soprano Isa Kremer , and inspired her to become the first woman sing Yiddish music on the concert stage. Bialik remained in Odessa until 1921, when

748-400: The Dvir publishing house. There, in collaboration with the rabbinical college Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums , Bialik published the first Hebrew language scientific journal. In Germany, Bialik joined a community of noted Jewish authors and publishers. Among them were Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Salman Schocken (owner of Schocken Department Stores and founder of Schocken Books ),

792-597: The Hebrew Committee House Hebrew : בת וועד העברי , romanized :  Bet Havad haIvri ) in Berlin's Scheunenviertel , in Café Monopol, which had a Hebrew-speaking corner, or Café des Westens (both in Berlin's more elegant western boroughs). Bialik succeeded Klal Publishing's Hebrew chief editor, Saul Israel Hurwitz, upon his death on August 8, 1922, during which time 80 titles were published. In January 1923, Bialik's 50th birthday

836-576: The Jews of Kishinev who had allowed their persecutors to wreak their will without raising us to defend themselves. No less admired are his passionate poems on love, nature, the yearning for Zion and children's poems. Bialik wrote most of his poems using Ashkenazi pronunciation. Today, modern Israeli Hebrew uses the Sephardi pronunciation (what Miryam Segal called the "new accent"), i.e., an amalgam of vowels and consonantal sounds from variety of sources. Consequently, Bialik's poems are rarely recited in

880-712: The Moriah publishing house was closed by Soviet authorities as a result of mounting paranoia following the Bolshevik Revolution . Through the intervention of Maxim Gorky , a group of Hebrew writers were given permission by the Soviet government to leave the country; Bialik moved, via the Second Polish Republic and Revolutionary Ankara Turkey , to Berlin , where, together with his friends Yehoshua Rawnitzki and Shmaryahu Levin , he re-established

924-479: The Russian Empire. These poems are often considered to be among the best of modern Yiddish poetry. Starting in 1908, Bialik switched to writing in prose: In collaboration with Rawnitzki, Bialik published Sefer HaAggadah ( The Book of Legends, 1908–1911), a three-volume edition of the folk tales and proverbs scattered throughout the Talmud . The book comprises a selection of hundreds of texts arranged thematically. It

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968-487: The author Ahad Ha'am , who had a significant influence on his Zionist outlook. In 1892, Bialik heard news that the Volozhin Yeshiva had closed and returned home to Zhytomyr to prevent his grandfather from discovering that he had discontinued his religious education. He arrived to find both his grandfather and his older brother close to death. Following their deaths, Bialik married Manya Averbuch in 1893. For

1012-589: The biography of Chaim Soloveitchik cites an anonymous student, presumably Bialik himself, being expelled from the Yeshiva for involvement in the Haskala movement. As Rabbi Chaim was escorting him out, Bialik asked, "Why?" In response, the rabbi said he had spent the time convincing Bialik not to use his writing talents against the yeshiva world. Poems such as HaMatmid ("The Talmud student"), written in 1898, reflect Bialik's great ambivalence toward that way of life: on

1056-405: The blackness of a naked brick, A crowbar has embedded itself deeply, like a crushing crowbar, And those holes are like black wounds, For which there is no healing or doctor. Take a step, and your footstep will sink: you have placed your foot in fluff, Into fragments of utensils, into rags, into shreds of books: Bit by bit they were amassed through arduous labor—and in a flash, Everything

1100-520: The city hosts the "Bialik Festival for Literature and Poetry," which includes cultural performances, meetings with authors, concerts, and children's plays. Three youth movements operate in Kiryat Bialik: Scouts , HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed , and HaMahanot HaOlim . Kiryat Bialik operates a conservatory for music studies and voice development and also has the "Young Bialik" youth band, which performs in Israel and abroad. The city has

1144-611: The city, there is a municipal library  [ HE ] with two branches, one in the Tzur Shalom area and one in the old Bialik area. The city has two " Pisgah Center  [ HE ] ", where various classes for children and teenagers, events, and performances are held. The "Afek Country Club" in the city features swimming pools and gyms. In 2019, the Yagur swimming pool was closed after 58 years of operation. Every year in May,

1188-480: The city: 6 elementary schools with 2,540 students, and 3 secondary education schools (2 junior high and 1 high school , under the same administration) with 3,751 students. 63.4% of 12th grade students were entitled to a Bagrut (matriculation) certificate in 2002. During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, the city suffered hits from 15 Katyushas and other types of rockets sent by Hezbollah. In

1232-414: The ethnic makeup of Kiryat Bialik in 2008 was all Jewish , without a significant Arab population. There were 17,900 males and 19,200 females. In 2003 25.8% of the population was 19 years of age or younger, 15.8% between 20 and 29, 17.4% between 30 and 44, 21.5 from 45 to 59, 3.8% from 60 to 64, and 15.6% 65 years of age or older. The population growth rate in 2005 was -0.3%.The city is ranked medium-high on

1276-628: The historian Simon Dubnow , Israel Isidor Elyashev , Uri Zvi Greenberg , Jakob Klatzkin (cofounder of the Eshkol publishing house in Berlin), Moyshe Kulbak , Zeev Latsky ("Bertoldi") (cofounder of Klal-farlag publishing house in Berlin in 1922), Simon Rawidowicz (co-founder of Klal-farlag ), Zalman Shneour , Nochum Shtif , Shaul Tchernichovsky , Shoshana Persitz (founder of Omanut publishing house ) and Martin Buber . They met routinely at

1320-433: The judge who can say which is preferable: a good poem or a good deed." Bialik wrote several different kinds of poetry: he is perhaps most famous for his long, nationalistic poems, which call for a reawakening of the Jewish people. Bialik had his own awakening even before writing those poems, arising out of the anger and shame he felt at the Jewish response to pogroms. In his poem In the City of Slaughter , Bialik excoriated

1364-604: The meter in which they were written, although according to Segal, the Ashkenazi (penultimate) stress pattern is still preserved. Bialik contributed significantly to the revival of the Hebrew language , which, before his days was used almost exclusively for liturgy. The generation of Hebrew language poets who followed in Bialik's footsteps, including Jacob Steinberg and Jacob Fichman , are known as "the Bialik generation". Bialik

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1408-584: The north to HaEmekim Street in the south of the city. Additionally, there are several parks throughout the city, including: Savyon Garden, which once housed the Savyon Cinema, Miriam Garden, Esther Park, HaBanim Park in the Afek neighborhood, and a park named after Ariel Sharon in the Tzur Shalom neighborhood. Kiryat Bialik is twinned with: Hayim Nahman Bialik Hayim Nahman Bialik ( Hebrew : חיים נחמן ביאַליק ; January 9, 1873 – July 4, 1934)

1452-429: The one hand, admiration for the dedication and devotion of the yeshiva students to their studies; on the other, a disdain for their narrow world. At 18, Bialik left for Odessa . A center of modern Jewish culture in the southern Russian Empire, drawn by his admiration for authors such as Mendele Mocher Sforim and Ahad Ha'am . There, Bialik studied Russian and German language and literature while dreaming of enrolling in

1496-692: The provincial life of Sosnowiec, Bialik secured a teaching job in Odessa. Bialik visited the United States, where he stayed with his cousin Raymond Bialeck in Hartford, CT . He is the uncle of actress Mayim Bialik 's great-great-grandfather. The year 1900 marked the beginning of Bialik's "golden period": he continued his activities in Zionist and literary circles, and his literary fame continued to rise. In 1901 his first collection of poetry

1540-548: The self-employed was 5,996 NIS. 557 people received unemployment benefits and 2,701 people received a guaranteed minimum income . The town was known for the Ata textile factory , established in 1934 by Erich Moller. The Ata plant, which opened in 1934, became an icon of the Israeli textile industry. It suffered from financial problems in the 1960s and closed down in 1985. According to CBS, there are 9 schools and 6,291 students in

1584-416: The settlement were bombed due to its proximity to nearby oil refineries. In the early 1950s, the 'Ir HaMifratz' transit camp (also called 'Cordani A') was established, where among others, about 100 families of immigrants from India were absorbed. The transit camp was annexed to Kiryat Bialik in 1960. During the Second Lebanon War , several rockets landed in the city, causing property damage and injuring

1628-490: The socio-economic scale (7 out of 10) Many Jewish immigrants have settled in Kiryat Bialik from Ethiopia , the former Soviet Union and Argentina . According to CBS figures for 2002, there were 17,514 salaried workers and 912 self-employed in Kiryat Bialik. The mean monthly wage for a salaried worker was 6,119 NIS ; salaried males had a mean monthly wage of 7,851 NIS versus 4,491 NIS for females The mean income for

1672-400: The spring, and the red massacre! Excerpt from the poem " In the City of Slaughter ", translated by Vladimir Jabotinsky It was during his visit to Odessa that Bialik first met the painter Ira Jan , with whom he conducted a secret love affair for many years. In the early 1900s, Bialik, together with Yehoshua Rawnitzki, Simcha Ben Zion and Elhanan Leib Lewinsky , founded Moriah ,

1716-638: The traditional Jewish religious education he received. At the age of 15, he convinced his grandfather to send him to the Volozhin Yeshiva in Vilna Governorate to study under Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin , where he hoped he could continue his Jewish schooling while expanding his knowledge of European literature. There, Bialik encountered the Haskala or Jewish Enlightenment movement and, as a result, drifted away from yeshiva life. A story in

1760-476: Was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew and Yiddish . Bialik is considered a pioneer of modern Hebrew poetry , part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice to a new spirit of his time, and recognized today as Israel's national poet . Being a noted essayist and story-teller, Bialik also translated major works from European languages. Hayim Nahman Bialik was born in Radi, Volhynia Governorate in

1804-521: Was celebrated in the old concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonic , bringing together everybody who was anybody. Bialik first visited Palestine in 1909. In 1924, he relocated with his publishing house Dvir to the township of Tel Aviv , devoting himself to cultural activities and public affairs and becoming a celebrated literary figure in the Yishuv . In 1927, Bialik was elected as head of

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1848-631: Was founded in July 1934 by a group of German Jewish immigrants who had received a plot of land from the Jewish National Fund . The residents were mainly free professionals, doctors, engineers and lawyers who lived in private homes with gardens. During World War II, Kiryat Bialik was bombed due to its proximity to the oil refineries in Haifa . In 1950, it was declared a local council, attaining city status in 1976. During World War II , parts of

1892-619: Was immediately recognized as a masterwork and has been reprinted numerous times. Bialik also edited the poems of the Andalusi poet and philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol and began a modern commentary on the Mishna , but only completed Zeraim , the first of the six Sedarim (Orders), of the Mishna. For this, Bialik intentionally chose to use the traditional Vilna edition of the Mishnah instead of

1936-669: Was published in Warsaw , where it was greeted with much critical acclaim, being hailed as "the poet of national Renaissance". Bialik relocated to Warsaw briefly in 1904 to serve as literary editor of the weekly magazine HaShiloah founded by Ahad Ha'am , a position he served for six years. In 1903, in the wake of the Kishinev pogroms , the Jewish Historical Commission in Odessa asked Bialik to travel to Kishiniev (today Chișinău ) to interview survivors and prepare

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