ABSTRACT
No modern Hebrew author utilized the images of Jesus and the cross more consistently than Uri Zvi Greenberg, initially more in his Yiddish works than in Hebrew. Greenberg realized both his vision of Europe and his design for redemption through various historical figures, including the prophet Jeremiah, Nahman of Bratslav, Socrates, and Shabbetai Zvi. Each represented a distinct feature of his ideology. Yet, from his earliest years as a writer living in Warsaw, Greenberg was most consistently preoccupied with the figure of Jesus and crucifixion motifs as metaphors for Europe after the First World War.
