Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series)
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Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series)

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Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century's (and Israel's) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai's early works, using two sets of untapped materials: notes and notebooks written by Amichai in Hebrew and German that are now preserved in the Beinecke archive at Yale, and a cache of ninety-eight as-yet unpublished lett...more
Hardcover, 445 pages
Published September 30th 2008 by Brandeis University Press
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Marcella
Read/skimmed this autobiography as I am about to beging reading the 'Rilke of Israel" at my good friend's suggestion
Doing it backwards as I should read his poetry first-and may come back to this book once I do
Getting ready for some really wonderful poetry!
Sheera
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the research is interesting, but i have a few problems in how the argument is framed, at least in terms of what an "autobiographical" poet owes his readers. still plodding along, however.
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