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By Maria Rainier For those of you who aren’t acquainted with Yehuda Amichai, he was a brilliant poet with a strong command of both the German and Hebrew languages, born in Germany in 1924. He died just a decade ago of cancer, leaving a legacy of both greatness and unconventional behavior. As Israel’s greatest modern…

14 Translators of Hebrew Literature Gathered This Month in Israel to Translate New Projects Together, Discuss the Future of Their Craft and Talk About Losing Money for the Love of Words

Education Ministry Has Overhauled Its Entire Poetry Curriculum, From the Middle Ages to the Late 20th Century.

I have just returned from Poland, where I went as part of a UJA-Federation of New York Rabbinic mission; there, we saw the refugees and heard their stories.

An Exchange on Nation and Exile "Perhaps I am one of the last who must live out to the end the destiny of the Jewish spirit in Europe." Why "must"? Writing from Paris in August 1948 to relatives in the new state of Israel, Paul Celan, having barely survived the "Final Solution" expedited by Nazism, explains that a poet cannot stop writing, "even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German." This fateful pledge, from a brutally orphaned son whose stirring 1945 ballad, "Deathfugue," ...