Amichai: the Tolerant Irony of Israel’s National Poet – Tablet Magazine

Source: Amichai: the Tolerant Irony of Israel’s National Poet – Tablet Magazine

If you were to ask who was the national poet of the State of Israel since 1948, the inevitable answer would be Amichai. At some point in his development, the man who had once been Ludwig Pfeuffer decided that he would live his life in Israel—mainly in Jerusalem—and that he would write his works in Hebrew.

 

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