Uri Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981), the son of a distinguished Hasidic family was raised in Lvov (now in Ukraine) and received a traditional religious education. Before he was twenty, his first poems, written in Yiddish and Hebrew, were published in contemporary periodicals. He was drafted into the Austrian army in 1915 and served until he deserted two years later. Returning to Lvov, he witnessed the pogroms of November, 1918, … Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Uri Zvi Greenberg. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Zvi_Greenberg
