# At the Hub > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/At_the_Hub > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/At_the_Hub.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Hub > Source revision: 1335796867 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|2007 political poem by Uri Zvi Greenberg}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox poem |name=At the Hub |image=At the hub cover.jpg |caption=Book cover |cover_artist={{Flat list| *[Beno Rothenberg](/source/Beno_Rothenberg) *[David Tartakover](/source/David_Tartakover)}} |author=Uri Zvi Greenberg |original_title=''' בַּעֲבִי הַשִּׁיר: מבחר שירים''', tr. '''''Ba-'avi ha-shir: Mivhar shirim''''' |country=Israel |language=Hebrew |subject={{Flat list| *20th century *[Christianity](/source/Christianity) *[Culture of Europe](/source/Culture_of_Europe) *[Emotion](/source/Emotion) *[Europe](/source/Europe) *[Everyday life](/source/Everyday_life) *[Far-right politics](/source/Israeli_far-right) *[History](/source/History) *[History of Europe](/source/History_of_Europe) *History of the Jews in Europe *[Human sexuality](/source/Human_sexuality) *The Holocaust *[Israel](/source/Israel) *[Jewish culture](/source/Jewish_culture) *[Jewish history](/source/Jewish_history) *[Jews](/source/Jews) *[Judaism](/source/Judaism) *[Liberty](/source/Liberty) *[Loneliness](/source/Loneliness) *[Melancholia](/source/Melancholia) *[Mental health](/source/Mental_health) *Monarchism *[Politics](/source/Politics) *[Philosophy](/source/Philosophy) *[Psychiatry](/source/Psychiatry) *[Psychology](/source/Psychology) *World War II}} |form=[Long poem](/source/Long_poem) |genre={{Flat list| *[Counterculture](/source/Counterculture) *[Erotic literature](/source/Erotic_literature) *Existentialism *Experimental literature *Expressionism *[Historical poetry](/source/Historical_poetry) *[Jewish literature](/source/Jewish_literature) *Lyric poetry *Modernist poetry *Political poetry *[Spiritual literature](/source/Spiritual_literature)}} |publisher=[Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem): [Bialik Institute](/source/Bialik_Institute) |publication_date={{Start date|2007|df=y}} {{small|(2nd ed.: {{Start date|2008|df=y}})}} |pages=616 |meter=[Free verse](/source/Free_verse) |rhyme=Free verse |isbn=9789653429239 |oclc=232688735 }} '''At the Hub''' ({{langx|he|בַּעֲבִי הַשִּׁיר: מבחר שירים}}, [tr.](/source/romanization_of_Hebrew) '''''Ba-'avi ha-shir: Mivhar shirim''''') is a lengthy [2007](/source/2007_in_poetry) [Hebrew](/source/modern_Hebrew_poetry) [political poem](/source/political_poetry) written by [Uri Zvi Greenberg](/source/Uri_Zvi_Greenberg) and edited by [Dan Miron](/source/Dan_Miron) and Greenberg's widow {{ill|Aliza Greenberg–Tur-Malka|he|עליזה גרינברג}}. Its publishing was made possible with the help of the [Menachem Begin Heritage Center](/source/Menachem_Begin_Heritage_Center), the [Israeli Ministry of Education](/source/Ministry_of_Education_(Israel)), the [Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport](/source/Ministry_of_Culture_and_Sport_(Israel)), the {{ill|Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv|he|קרן יהושע רבינוביץ לאמנויות תל אביב}}, and, the {{ill|Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts|he|מועצת הפיס לתרבות ולאמנות}}. ==Reception== Writing for the liberal newspaper ''[Haaretz](/source/Haaretz)'', {{ill|Ariel Hirschfeld|he|אריאל הירשפלד}} from Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Hebrew literature department called the poem "one of the highest peaks of Hebrew poetry", and compared Greenberg's work to those of [Hayim Nahman Bialik](/source/Hayim_Nahman_Bialik), [Shmuel Yosef Agnon](/source/Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon), [Dahlia Ravikovitch](/source/Dahlia_Ravikovitch), [James Joyce](/source/James_Joyce), Dr. [Nathan Zach](/source/Nathan_Zach), [Franz Kafka](/source/Franz_Kafka), Dr. [Yitzhak Laor](/source/Yitzhak_Laor), [W. B. Yeats](/source/W._B._Yeats), [William Faulkner](/source/William_Faulkner), [Osip Mandelstam](/source/Osip_Mandelstam), and, [Rainer Maria Rilke](/source/Rainer_Maria_Rilke), "as, his work is equal to theirs," adding that the poem "is a wellspring of rare beauty and wisdom," and is "the most profound confrontation written in Hebrew with man's breakdown during the 20th century, including the dissolution of [European Jewry](/source/History_of_the_Jews_in_Europe) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II), which is man's shattered mirror."{{cite news|date=11 July 2007|script-title=he: ספר הראי המנופץ: מסע אל כמה מפסגותיה הגבוהות ביותר של השירה העברית|trans-title=The Book of the Shattered Mirror: A Journey Into Some of Hebrew Poetry's Highest Peaks|last=Hirschfeld|first=Prof. Dr. Ariel|url=http://haaretz.co.il/1.1425034|language=Hebrew|work=Haaretz|location=[Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv)|page=16|publisher=[M. DuMont Schauberg](/source/M._DuMont_Schauberg)|access-date=27 June 2017}} Also writing for ''Haaretz'', critic Dr. Oreet Meital opined that Dr. Miron attempted, via the aforementioned footnotes, to depoliticize Greenberg's poem: "Uri Zvi Greenberg's poetry should not lose, upon moving from the fringes to the mainstream, its provocative, violent, and, paradoxical nature, for, its canonization, especially if done so tendentiously and deliberately, is a castrating mechanism working against the text's subversiveness and against the wild dimension which is part of its magic and essence. Hence, one should be wary of this [whitewashing](/source/whitewashing_(censorship)) rendering Uri Zvi Greenberg anemic."{{cite news|date=23 September 2007|script-title=he:המחיר שאצ״ג יצטרך לשלם כדי להיות ביאליק|trans-title=The Price Uri Zvi Greenberg Will Have to Pay in Order to Become Hayim Nahman Bialik|last=Meital|first=Dr. Oreet|url=http://haaretz.co.il/1.1444277|pages=18–19|volume=761|language=Hebrew|work=Haaretz|location=Tel Aviv|publisher=M. DuMont Schauberg|access-date=27 June 2017}} Writing for the right-leaning magazine ''{{ill|Nativ: A Journal of Politics and the Arts|he|נתיב (כתב עת)}}'', critic Dr. {{ill|Yoram Beck|he|יורם בק}} underscored that "at a time during which talks of a clash of civilizations are common, Uri Zvi Greenberg's ideas seem relevant more and more, however, we still do not completely understand their implications," for, "Uri Zvi Greenberg's poetry is a poetry of heights, a poetry of a deep soul which demands, both from itself and from others, extraordinary demands, and, one cannot be at the presence of this poetry comfortably. This poetry, first and foremost (surprisingly!), is bestowed by a zest for life — not a hedonistic but an ecstatic one — and, it embraces all layers of life: from the mundane to the historical, from the material to the spiritual, from the erotic to the religious. Uri Zvi Greenberg constructs his poetry out of all of life. This is a poetry of complete freedom, in which the poet allows himself (this is the correct expression) to use all [registers](/source/register_(sociolinguistics)), all associations, and, all literary forms, in order to express himself," as, "this is a poetry of loneliness."{{cite news|date=September 2007|script-title=he:תִּגָּר וְתִּגְרָה|trans-title=Distrust and Dispute|last=Beck|first=Dr. Yoram|url=http://acpr.org.il/nativ/articles/2007_4-5_book-reviews.pdf|language=Hebrew|work=Nativ: A Journal of Politics and the Arts|pages=96–97|volume=117–118|issue=4–5|location=[Sha'arei Tikva](/source/Sha'arei_Tikva)|publisher={{ill|Ariel Center for Policy Research|he|מרכז אריאל למחקרי מדיניות|sh|Centar Ariel za politička istraživanja}}|access-date=28 June 2017}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== *[אלפרוביץ, ד״ר ליאור](/source/%3Ahe%3A%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A5). האדישות הקוסמית לסבל ולשכול. בתוך: '''[טיים־אאוט תל אביב](/source/Time_Out_(magazine))''', [פתח תקווה](/source/Petah_Tikva): [סטימצקי](/source/Steimatzky), גיליון 250, ב׳ עד ט׳ באלול ה׳תשס״ז/16 עד 23 באוגוסט 2007, עמ׳ 244. {{in lang|he}} *[מן, ד״ר ניר](/source/%3Ahe%3A%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%9E%D7%9F). משורר החזון והכתלים החלקים. בתוך: '''[מקור ראשון](/source/Makor_Rishon)''', תל אביב–יפו: [ישראל היום](/source/Israel_Hayom), כ״ז בתמוז ה׳תשס״ז/13 ביולי 2007. {{in lang|he}} *[פישלוב, פרופ׳ ד״ר דוד](/source/David_Fishelov). גלות מרצון ומאונס. בתוך: '''[ידיעות אחרונות](/source/Yedioth_Ahronoth)''', [ראשון לציון](/source/Rishon_LeZion): [ידיעות אחרונות](/source/Yedioth_Ahronoth), ה׳ באב ה׳תשס״ז/20 ביולי 2007. {{in lang|he}} ==External links== *גרינברג–טור־מלכא, אורי צבי. '''[http://bialik-publishing.co.il/index.php?dir=site&page=catalog&op=item&cs=1295 בַּעֲבִי הַשִּׁיר: מבחר שירים]''', ע. עליזה גרינברג–טור־מלכא ופרופ׳ אמריטוס ד״ר דן מירון, עם ״פתח דבר,״ עמ׳ 15–35 מאת פרופ׳ אמריטוס ד״ר דן מירון. ירושלים: מוסד ביאליק, ה׳תשס״ז/2007, מהדורה שנייה: ה׳תשס״ט/2008, 616 עמ׳, 9789653429239. {{in lang|he}} {{Authority control}} Category:2007 non-fiction books Category:2007 poems Category:Books about Christianity Category:Books about diseases and disorders Category:Books about emotions Category:Books about Europe Category:Books about Israel Category:Books about Jews and Judaism Category:Books about spirituality Category:Counterculture of the 2000s Category:Existentialist books Category:Experimental literature Category:Expressionist works Category:Far-right politics in Israel Category:Hebrew-language books Category:Historical poems Category:Books about the Holocaust Category:Israeli poetry Category:Jewish literature Category:Modernist poems Category:Monarchism Category:Philosophical poems Category:Poems about diseases and disorders Category:Poems about sexuality Category:Poems about the Holocaust Category:Poems by Uri Zvi Greenberg Category:Political books Category:Political literature Category:Religious poetry Category:Works about melancholia Category:Works about psychology --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [At the Hub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Hub) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Hub?action=history)). 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