Yehuda Amichai
3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet, born in Germany, who emigrated with his family to Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s. Writing in a colloquial modern Hebrew that drew on biblical and liturgical language, he became one of the most widely translated Hebrew poets of the twentieth century. He received the Israel Prize for poetry in 1982 and published fiction and drama alongside his verse.
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Life events
Born Ludwig Pfeuffer into an Orthodox Jewish family.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe family left Germany and settled first in Petah Tikva and then in Jerusalem.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEnlisted during the Second World War and served in the British forces.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgServed with the Palmach in the Negev during the war.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRead Hebrew literature and biblical studies, then worked as a schoolteacher.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe book introduced his colloquial style to Hebrew poetry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis first novel followed an Israeli returning to the German city of his childhood.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgReceived Israel's highest civilian honour for his work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied of cancer at the age of seventy-six.
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