Abstract
David Vogel presents us with many enigmas but perhaps the most curious is his choice of Hebrew through which to express elements of the modernist European aesthetic. Vogel was born in Podolia in 1891. Little is known about his education, his family or his early interests. He arrived in Vilna in 1909 or 1910 and left there in 1912 after having been arrested for avoiding the army. During the First World War Vogel was incarcerated as an enemy alien in three prison camps in Austria. Vogel's nature imagery most frequently embraces the dull hues generally attributed to a cityscape, rather than the rich colours of the countryside. Paradoxically much of his poetry is concerned with evocation of nature, at odds with his daily experience as a city dweller. Keywords: cityscape; David Vogel's poetry; modernist European aesthetic
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