Yizhak Lamdan (1899 – 1954, b. Mlinov, the Ukraine) received a traditional and secular education. During World War I he was cut off from his parents and wandered through southern Russia with his brother, who was later killed in a pogrom. Lamdan embraced the communist cause and volunteered for the Red Army at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. In 1918 he left the army and returned to Mlinov, where he taught Hebrew and published his first poem in Hashiloah. In 1920 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and spent his first years in the country paving roads and working on farms. His poetry, inspired by those experiences, was published in various literary journals and aroused great interest. From 1934 on, he devoted himself exclusively to literary work, publishing and editing his own literary monthly, Gilyonot. Lamdan was a member of the central committee of the Hebrew Writers Association for many years.