Download or read book Breakdown and Bereavement written by Joseph Ḥayyim Brenner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakdown and Bereavement is set in a Jewish settlement in Palestine in the years before World War I, when the tragic pattern of Arab-Jewish relations was taking shape. The hero, Hefetz, is a typical Brenner character, a wanderer in search of a spiritual homeland. --Publisher description.