Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many to be the greatest modern Israeli poet, and was one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. His writings often dealt with the issues of day-to-day life, and were less overtly literary than many nineteenth century Hebrew poets such as Hayyim Nahman Bialik. His writings are characterized by gentle irony and the pain of damaged love. It was a love for people, for a religion and for a land, most of all it was a love for the city of Jerusalem. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... A poet is someone who writes poetry. ... A poet is someone who writes poetry. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Hayyim Nahman Bialik (January 9, 1873–July 4, 1934), also commonly written as Chaim or Haim Nachman Bialik and in the Hebrew language as חיים נחמן ביאליק, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. ... Panoramic view from Mt. ...

Amichai was born in Würzburg, Germany, as Ludwig Pfeuffer, then immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936. He fought in the World War II (British Army Jewish Brigade) and the Israeli War of Independence as a young man. He became an advocate of peace and reconciliation in the region, working with Palestinian writers. Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. ... Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Jewish Brigade recruitment poster: For Salvation and Vengeance! A recruitment drive poster for the Jewish Brigade: Soldiers of 1915-1918: to the flag! {Figure in background represents the Jewish Legion of World War I} The Jewish Brigade was a fighting unit in the British Army composed of volunteers from the... The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, called the War of Independence by Israelis and al Nakba the catastrophe by Arabs, was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. ...

He was "discovered" in 1965 by Ted Hughes, who later translated several of Amichai's books. Edward (Ted) James Hughes, OM, referred to normally as Ted Hughes, (August 17, 1930 – October 28, 1998) was an English poet and childrens writer. ...

"He should have won the Nobel Prize in any of the last 20 years," wrote Jonathan Wilson in The New York Times (December 10, 2000), "but he knew that as far as the Scandinavian judges were concerned, and whatever his personal politics, which were indubitably on the dovish side, he came from the wrong side of the stockade." Nobel Prize medal. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

Works in English

• A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994. Selected and translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

• Amen. Translated by the author and Ted Hughes. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

• Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with Fingers: Recent Poems. Selected and translated by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.

• Exile at Home. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

• Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers. Translated by Glenda Abramson and Tudor Parfitt. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

• Love Poems: A Bilingual Edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

• Not of this Time, Not of this Place. Translated by Shlomo Katz. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

• On New Year’s Day, Next to a House Being Built: A Poem. Knotting [England]: Sceptre Press, 1979.

• Open Closed Open: Poems. Translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. New York: Harcourt, 2000. (Shortlisted for the 2001 International Griffin Poetry Prize)

• Poems of Jerusalem: A Bilingual Edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

• Selected Poems. Translated by Assia Gutmann. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968.

• Selected Poems. Translated by Assia Gutmann and Harold Schimmel with the collaboration of Ted Hughes. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971.

• Selected Poems. Edited by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort. London: Faber & Faber, 2000.

• Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Edited and translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Newly revised and expanded edition: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

• Songs of Jerusalem and Myself. Translated by Harold Schimmel. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

• Time. Translated by the author with Ted Hughes. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

• Travels. Translated by Ruth Nevo. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1986.

• Travels of a Latter-Day Benjamin of Tudela. Translated by Ruth Nevo. Missouri: Webster Review, 1977.

• The World Is a Room and Other Stories. Translated by Elinor Grumet. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1984.

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Bibliography

• Lapon-Kandeslshein, Essi. To Commemorate the 70th Birthday of Yehuda Amichai: A Bibliography of His Work in Translation. Ramat Gan (Israel): Institute of the Translation of Hebrew Literature, 1994.

See also

The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself (2003), ISBN 0-8143-2485-1

External links

• Yehuda Amichai's Poetry Introduction to Amichai's poetry, in audio. Many links.
• Yehuda Amichai 1924-2000 tribute at The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
• Yehuda Amichai