Amichai, Yehuda

Yehuda Amichai, one of Israel's best known modern poets, was born in Germany in 1924 and immigrated to Palestine in 1936. He served with the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in WWII and with the Palmach in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 before completing an undergraduate degree in 1955. He taught in secondary schools in Jerusalem for many years and later at a teachers college. He published the first of several poetry collections in 1955, and is the author of essays, children's books, novels, plays, and short stories. Yehuda Amichai was honored with a number of literary awards and nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.

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From the guide to the Yehuda Amichai papers, 1929-1999, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)