Uri Zvi Greenberg
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| Date of birth | 22 September 1896 |
| Place of birth | Bilyi Kamin, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary |
| Year of aliyah | 1923 |
| Date of death | 8 May 1981 (aged 84) |
| Place of death | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Knessets | 1 |
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| 1949–1951 | Herut |
Uri Zvi Greenberg (Hebrew: אורי צבי גרינברג; September 22, 1896 – May 8, 1981) was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.
Uri Zvi Greenberg was born in the Galician town Bilyi Kamin, in Austria-Hungary, into a prominent Hasidic family. He was raised in Lemberg (Lviv). Some of his poems in Yiddish and Hebrew were published before he was 20. In 1915 he was drafted into the army and fought in the First World War. After returning to Lemberg, he was witness to the pogroms of November 1918. Greenberg and his family miraculously escaped being shot by Polish soldiers, an experience which convinced him that all Jews living in the "Kingdom of the Cross” faced physical annihilation.
Greenberg moved to Warsaw, where he wrote for the Yiddish newspaper Moment. After a brief stay in Berlin, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine (the Land of Israel) in 1923. Greenberg was in Poland when the Second World War erupted in 1939, but managed to escape.
In 1950, Grinberg married Aliza, with whom he had two daughters and three sons. He added "Tur-Malka" to the family name, but continued to use "Greenberg" to honor family members who perished in the Holocaust.
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