Yehoshua Heschel Yeivin

Yehoshua Heschel Yeivin was born in 1891 in Vinnytsia

Yeivin was born in 1891 in Vinnytsia, in the Russian Empire. He was orphaned at age 4 and was raised by his maternal grandmother in Mezhirichi. He studied Torah privately and later attended the Hebrew Gymnasium in Vilna.

He studied medicine at the University of Moscow. He was then drafted into the Russian Army and served as a doctor in World War I. His war experiences appear in many of his early writings.

He wrote poems and stories in Yiddish and Hebrew. In 1919 he moved to Vilna and worked as a doctor and teacher, then turned fully to writing. In Berlin from 1922 he joined Poale Zion and translated French works by Romain Rolland, Guy de Maupassant and Henri Bergson.

In 1924 the family moved to Palestine, where he taught for the Histadrut in the Jezreel Valley. In 1928 he left the labor movement for the Revisionists and founded the Revisionist Labor Group with Abba Ahimeir and Uri Zvi Greenberg. He worked as an editor at Doar Ha'Yom and Hazit Ha'Am.

In 1930 he co-founded Brit HaBirionim, an underground group that opposed British rule. After the 1933 murder of Haim Arlosoroff, members of the group were accused and some were arrested. Yeivin spent about 4 months in prison and was released in 1934. He died in 1970.