Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet

by Nili Scharf Gold

Book Overview

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 Her close reading of his oeuvre, untapped notebooks, and a cache of unpublished letters to a woman identified as Ruth Z. that Gold discovered convincingly demonstrates how the poet's German past infused his work, despite his attempts to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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584657332
• ISBN13: 9781584657330
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 445 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 8.8"