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Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet
by Nili Scharf Gold
Brandeis University Press, 2008
eISBN: 978-1-58465-812-2 | Cloth: 978-1-58465-733-0 | Paper: 978-1-68458-000-2
Library of Congress Classification PJ5054.A65Z686 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 892.416

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 Her close reading of his oeuvre, untapped notebooks, and a cache of unpublished letters to a woman identified as Ruth Z. that Gold discovered convincingly demonstrates how the poet’s German past infused his work, despite his attempts to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.
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