Bialik House Museum - an expensive place for every Jew. Here lived Chaim Bialik, the national poet of Israel. Even if the tourist is not interested in poetry in Yiddish and Hebrew, it is still worth a visit this home, considered one of the most beautiful in Tel Aviv. The house is interesting and architecture, and to recreate the atmosphere in which the Jewish intelligentsia lived in the twenties and thirties of the XX century.

Chaim Bialik wrote love poems, poems for children, prose; many translated and edited. He had an enormous impact on the entire Jewish literature. But perhaps the most famous poems of Bialik, calling him a modern Jewish people to awakening and spiritual growth. Truly Bialik became famous in 1904 when he published the poem "City Massacre" (in the Russian translation of "The Tale of the pogrom"). Readers are amazed that in a poem dedicated to the Kishinev pogrom, the poet not only described the horrible villainy, but also blamed the weakness of compatriots and cowardice. Many Jews, after reading a poem to join the movement of self-defense that has arisen in response to the massacres.

An unusual view of life was inherent to youth Chaim. Bialik was born in the depths of the Russian empire, raised Talmudic grandfather, studied at the chapel, and the yeshiva, but like every great mind, he was cramped in the narrow framework. He engaged in self-education, he studied Russian and German, secretly read secular books writers of the Enlightenment, many reflected on the history of their people.

Soon after the revolution, in 1921, with the assistance of Maxim Gorky Bialik managed to leave Soviet Russia. He moved to Berlin, and after - in Tel Aviv, where he bought land and built for himself and his wife Mani, this unusual house. Hence in 1934, after the premature death of Bialik grieving crowd of people accompanied the poet on his last journey.

The house was built by architect Joseph Minor in his typical eclectic style, boldly combining Eastern and Western traditions. Conspicuous tower dome, outdoor terraces, arched windows. Ground floor richly decorated with ceramic tiles, produced in the Academy of Arts "Bezalel" on sketches Ze'ev Raban. The images on the tile guessed Old Testament stories. Of great importance in the design plays a wall color - deep blue at the entrance, deep ocher on the stairs, trim olive in semi-circular dining room where service on the table as if waiting for guests.

It was not just housing - are going to the Jewish writers, artists, and public figures. The museum felt the aura of hospitable home. Preserved authentic household items, furniture, paintings, sculptures, books, letters and documents.

The street on which the house stands Bialik, bears his name. It seems to be common practice. But this is the street name given during the life of the poet. The first mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff understood that the decision Bialik live here - a great honor for a young city. Immediately after arriving in Palestine Dizengoff Bialik gave a ceremonial reception, which has promised to name the street where he lived the great poet, his name. So they did.