Israel Eliraz (Hebrew: ישראל אלירז) (born 23 March 1936 in Knesset Yisrael, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine as Israel Rothstein (Hebrew: ישראל רוטשטיין); died 22 March 2016 in Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel) was an Israeli poet.
Biography
Born as Israel Rothstein to a religious family in the Knesset Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem, his parents were Ya'akov and Shifra Rothstein. He attended Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he specialized in Jewish literature and philosophy, and received his Master's degree from Tel Aviv University, where he specialized in comparative literary studies, and worked for a living as a teacher and principal at the Gymnasia Rehavia and as an instructor at the Kerem Institute for Teacher Training . Occasionally he would also lecture in France and the United States. He lived in Jerusalem all his life and was married to Naomi née Brunner, with whom he had three children.
Publications
- אלירז, ישראל. דְּבָרִים דְּחוּפִים: מבחר שירים 1980–2010, ע. ד״ר דרור בורשטיין, עם ״איך אלירז יכול לשנות את חייך,״ עמ׳ 380–390 מאת ד״ר דרור בורשטיין. תל אביב–יפו: הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, ה׳תש״ע/2010, 392 עמ׳. Template:He icon
Haaretz critic Prof. Dr. Miron Chaim Izakson wrote about this book that upon reading it he felt as if he "received endless letters from the poet regarding existential wonders,"[1] while Iton 77 critic Amos Levitan said that it changed his life.[2]
References
- ^ Izakson, Prof. Dr. Miron Chaim (24 November 2010). דרך אל מקום שהוא דרך [A Road to a Place Which Is a Road]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Vol. 926. Tel Aviv: M. DuMont Schauberg. p. 16. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^ Levitan, Amos (August–September 2010). מבחר שהוא ספר שירים חי [A Selection Which Is a Living Poetry Book] (PDF). Iton 77 (in Hebrew). Vol. 349. Tel Aviv: Ministry of Culture and Sport. pp. 42–43. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
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