WordsDay: Yehuda Amichai, rogue poet : vimarsana.com

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…

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