Yehuda Amichai

The Making of Israel's National Poet

• Author(s): Nili Scharf Gold,
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Pages: 468
• ISBN_10: 1684580005
  ISBN_13: 9781684580002
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Arab & Middle Eastern , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Family & Relationships / General , Literary Criticism / General , Social Science / General , Social Science / Jewish Studies ,

Description:... Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century’s (and Israel’s) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai’s early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvre, untapped notebooks, and a cache of unpublished letters to a woman identified as Ruth Z. that Gold discovered convincingly demonstrates how the poet’s German past infused his work, despite his attempts to conceal it as he adopted an Israeli identity.