Doubts and Loves of Yehuda Amichai - Israeli, European, and International Poet

This book presents the life and works of Yehuda Amichai, born Ludwig Pfeuffer in Würzburg, Germany. Amichai, an engaged political poet, was an enlightened, humanitarian European while remaining an authentic Israeli who loved his country and was deeply involved finding solutions to its problems.

List of contents

Introduction: Amichai from Inside and Out
Chapter 1: 1924-1936: Childhood in Würzburg, Germany
Chapter 2: 1936-1942: Teenage Years in Petach Tikva and Jerusalem
Chapter 3: 1942-1946: Military Policeman and Soldier in the British Army
Chapter 4r: July 1946-April 1948: Teachers' College and the Beginning of Amichai's Teaching Career
Chapter 5: April 1948-Summer 1949: The War of Independence, Marriage to Tamar
Chapter 6: 1949-1955: University Education, the Trip to the US, Amichai's First Book
Chapter 7:1955-1958: Responses to His Book, First Award, Separation from Tamar,
the Stormy Affair with Clarice
Chapter 8t: 1957-1959: Two More Volumes of Poetry, Clarice Leaves Israel
Chapter 9: 1958-1963: Clarice in Amichai's Poetry, the Birth of Roni, Publication of
Stories and a Novel
Chapter 10: 1962-1964: Plays and Radio Scripts, Publication of Poems 1948-1962
Chapter 11: 1964-1968: A Year in New York, Friendship with Ted Hughes, Return to Israel after the Six Day War
Chapter 12: 1968-1971: Publication of Now in the Storm, the Mashkof Group, Visits from Major Poets
Chapter 13: 1970-1990: Volumes of Poetry in Hebrew and in Translation, Major Prizes At Home and Abroad, Becoming the Middle-Aged Father of Young Children
Chapter 14: Amichai's Last Volume of Poetry, the Eve of His Death and Posthumous Projects of Remembrance
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Ido Bassok

Product details

• Authors: Ido Bassok
• Assisted by: Mark Joseph (Translation), Joseph Mark (Translation)
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9780761874607
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-7460-7
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Poetry, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General, POETRY / European / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern, POETRY / Middle Eastern, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry)