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Review of Patuah Sagur Patuah by a bilingual Israeli American poet
I am an Israeli American poet whose style is compared to Yehuda's
and I feel a very strong connection with his work. I had a bi-lingual poetry collection of his before I purchased Patuah Sagur
Patuah (Open Closed Open ) I also have the English translation
Open Closed Open, which my non-Hebrew speaking husband reads.
I read from Patuah Sagur Patuah, translating out loud as he reads
from the English. We enjoy reading Amichai's work together like this..but while all of the translations of Amichai's works into
English are very accurate..what I can not strongly emphasize enough is that all Hebrew speakers get a hold of the works in Hebrew if humanly possible.
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Amichai translates Amichai with Ted Hugheshelp
These eighty poems were translated by Yehuda Amichai from the original Hebrew. He did this with the aid of his great friend Ted Hughes. It is not surpising then that the poems are clean and clear, that their language has a crispness which does not confuse or confound the reader. The volume contains much of the usual Amichai meditative poetry. He thinks about War and Death, about Love about fidelity and infidelity, about Jerusalem Holy and Unholy, united and divided. As always irony and complexity are in his lines, and it is possible to take them with whatever wistfulness, sadness and at times delight one can. Amichai is a great modern Hebrew poet. This work provides real evidence of what his major themes and concerns are. ... Read more

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A master
This selection is by a master, one of the great modern poets, and the one who in Israel spoke to more readers than any other. This volume is only in English and thus does not really serve the reader of both Hebrew and English. It is translated by Assia Guttman.

Here is one poem.

" The Place Where I've Not Been "

The place where I have not been
I shall never be.
The place where I have been
Is as though i have never been there. People stray
Far from the places where they were born
And far from the words which were spoken
as if by their mouths
And still wide of the promise
Which they were promised.

And they eat standing and die sitting
And lying down they remember
And what I shall never in the world return to
And look at, I am to love for ever.
Only a stranger will return to my place.But I will set
down
All these things once more, as Moses did,

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Original concept, meandering novel.
"Not of this time, Not of this Place" by Yehudah Amichai is an original novel, which is its only strength.I was captivated nor really feeling anything for Joel, who basically pulls a "Sliding Doors" thirty years before the movie.The novel follows a divergence where Joel either stay in Jersusalem and falls in love with an American, or goes back to Germany to revisit old wounds.Joel talks of revenge but only finds sad memory.The love story between Joel and Patricia seems totally unreal.

almost physically disappointing
first of all, let me emphasize that yehuda amichai's poetry is-in my modest opinion-almost peerless. only neruda, qabbani and hikmet are comparable. amichai often makes me cry with only two or three lines. assoon as i read about this book, i was very enthusiastic and wanted to buyit at once. as a refugee who spent 7 years in germany and a middle eaststudies major, i was convinced that the novel would touch me emotionallyand teach me a lot about coping with memories and pain. however, i felt thebook was quite devoid of originality and freshness. thefirst-person-narrator was rather convincing, but the love story was highlyconventional and there was absolutely nothing in patricia's character thatwould provoke such lyrical outbursts. i felt guilty for not appreciatingit, especially since it seems to be autobiographic, echoing several of hispoems. i am afraid that the book even spoiled much of his poetry for me,destroying the simplicity and the timelessness i had deeply admired. ... Read more

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The world's leading authorities on Israel's foremost poet, Yehuda Amichai, explore all the major genres and themes of his work. The result is an important book, a unique and comprehensive scholarly overview of a major 20th-century literary figure. This volume will prove especially valuable to those teaching modern Hebrew literature in English language universities. ... Read more

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Reading the Bible like the Newspaper
The poet Ted Hughes, who translated many of Yehuda Amichai's poems (in tandem with the poet) said he admired Amichai's poetry because he could read the Bible like a newspaper.What Hughes meant, of course, was that Amichai did what many Hebrew poets do, but only did it exceptionally well: he often employed the language of the Bible, the elevated literary Hebrew of the Tanackh, and juxtaposed it with gritty, living reality of Israeli Hebrew, with its slang and neologisms, with startling results.

And nowhere is this seen more clearly than in this collection of poems about Jerusalem.In "Psalm" Amichai writes: A song on a day /some building contractor / cheated me.A Psalm.And in "The Heaven's are the Lord's Heavens" he writes "And the earth was given to man. But / who finds gold and marble in the house of prayer?/ And how many men who kiss the mezuzah / Have been kissed with love by a woman? / And how many women who throw themselves / on a holy tomb / Have ever been taken from behind and fainted from pleasure?"

Amichai contrasts the holy with the profane, mixing them up to the point of absurdity, while touching upon his frequent theme of a world abandoned by God.In this bi-lingual edition, the reader can see that there is no real diglossia in Hebrew.The classic Hebrew of the Bible and the Israeli Hebrew of the streets are mutually intelligible, and can even share a line in a poem to the enriching, mutual advantage of both.

A great poem in the holy city
Yehuda Amichai is a great poet. His work appeals on many different levels. First of all , he writes about the experiences of love and of war, and of everyday life in a society fighting for its life. Secondly , he uses his knowledge of traditional Jewish sources to create a rich ironic and contemplative text .Thirdly he is as a writer and as a person, ' decent' and ' fair'. Fourthly, his language has the quiet beauty of Hebrew colloquial .
Amichai's poetry captures the mood of theholy city the city in which there is so much beauty and so much conflict and contradiction. And he enhances our sense of reality and life.
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Chapters: Leah Goldberg, Yehuda Amichai, Hanoch Levin, David Dean Shulman, Avraham Stern, Itzik Manger, Avraham Shlonsky, Paul Hartal, Mati Shemoelof, Reda Mansour, Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Naomi Shemer, Uri Zvi Grinberg, Aharon Appelfeld, Ya'qub Bilbul, Natan Yonatan, Haim Hefer, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Amir Or, Ronny Someck, Yonatan Ratosh, Aharon Amir, Janice Rebibo, Nathan Zach, Abba Kovner, Haim Gouri, Shimon Tzabar, Dan Pagis, Mordechai Geldman, Nathan Alterman, Meir Wieseltier, Roy Arad, Aharon Shabtai, Igor Guberman, Tawfiq Ziad, Taha Muhammad Ali, Zelda, Gershom Schocken, Hillel Omer, Rami Saari, David Avidan, Ezra Fleischer, Ronen Altman Kaydar, Avoth Yeshurun, Olga Kirsch, Reuven Ben-Yosef, Giora Leshem, Mikhail Gendelev, Simon Halkin, Pinchas Hacohen Peli, Raquel Chalfi, Jacob Fichman, T. Carmi, Dror Elimelech, Admiel Kosman, Ariel Bercovich, Yehonatan Geffen, Agi Mishol, Vaan Nguyen, Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Gabriel Levin, Zalman Shneur, Alexander Penn, Amasai Levin, David Shimoni, Amir Gilboa, Yitzhak Laor, Israel Pinkas, Yona Wallach, Menahem Ben, Shimon Adaf, Elisha Porat, Avner Shats, Yehudit Kafri, Yitzhak Lamdan, Avraham Ben-Yitzhak, Amira Hess, Erez Biton, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Hedva Harekhavi, Daliyah Herts, Hezi Leskali, Yair Hurvitz, Fania Bergstein, Yakir Ben Moshe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 288. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: ; May 3, 1924 September 22, 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) was born in Würzburg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish family, and was raised speaking both Hebrew and German. Amichai immigrated with his family at t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=826477 ... Read more

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Chapters: Yehuda Amichai, A. B. Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld, David Grossman, Yaky Yosha, Dorit Bar Or, Suki Lahav, Michael Bar-Zohar, Nisim Aloni, Gila Almagor, Alona Kimhi, Yaakov Shabtai, Meir Shalev, Alon Hilu, Haim Hazaz, Uri Adelman, Tamar Adar, Avner Shats, Dina Rubina. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 81. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: ; May 3, 1924 September 22, 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) was born in Würzburg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish family, and was raised speaking both Hebrew and German. Amichai immigrated with his family at the age of 11 to Petah Tikva in Mandate Palestine in 1935, moving to Jerusalem in 1936. He attended Ma'aleh, a religious high school in Jerusalem. He was a member of the Palmach, the strike force of the Haganah, the defence force of the Jewish community in pre-state Israel. As a young man he volunteered and fought in World War II as a member of the British Army Jewish Brigade, and in the Negev on the southern front in the Israeli War of Independence. After the War of Independence, Amichai studied Bible and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Encouraged by one of his professors at Hebrew University, he published his first book of poetry, Now and in Other Days, in 1955. In 1956, Amichai served in the Sinai War, and in 1973 he served in the Yom Kippur War. Amichai published his first novel, Not of This Time, Not of This Place, in 1963. It was about a young German Jew in Israel after World War II, trying to make sense of the world that created the Holocaust. His second novel, Mi Yitneni Malon, about an Israeli poe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=826477 ... Read more

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Chapters: Yehuda Amichai. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: ; May 3, 1924 September 22, 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) was born in Würzburg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish family, and was raised speaking both Hebrew and German. Amichai immigrated with his family at the age of 11 to Petah Tikva in Mandate Palestine in 1935, moving to Jerusalem in 1936. He attended Ma'aleh, a religious high school in Jerusalem. He was a member of the Palmach, the strike force of the Haganah, the defence force of the Jewish community in pre-state Israel. As a young man he volunteered and fought in World War II as a member of the British Army Jewish Brigade, and in the Negev on the southern front in the Israeli War of Independence. After the War of Independence, Amichai studied Bible and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Encouraged by one of his professors at Hebrew University, he published his first book of poetry, Now and in Other Days, in 1955. In 1956, Amichai served in the Sinai War, and in 1973 he served in the Yom Kippur War. Amichai published his first novel, Not of This Time, Not of This Place, in 1963. It was about a young German Jew in Israel after World War II, trying to make sense of the world that created the Holocaust. His second novel, Mi Yitneni Malon, about an Israeli poet living in New York, was published in 1971 while Amichai was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a poet in residence at New York University in 1987. For many years he taught literature in an Israeli seminar for tea...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=826477 ... Read more

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Title: Remembering Yehuda Amichai: Homage to an Israeli Poet.
Author: Esther Fuchs
Publication: Midstream (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2001
Publisher: Theodor Herzl Foundation
Volume: 47Issue: 4Page: 27

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Chapters: Yehuda Amichai, Emil Fackenheim, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, William Steinberg, Hanna Maron, Lukas Foss, Nechama Leibowitz, Abraham Fraenkel, Leo Picard, Mordechai Rotenberg, Yosef Burg, Bernhard Zondek, Isser Be'eri, Mordechai Geldman, Pinchas Biberfeld, Yitzhak Baer, Gershom Schocken, Arthur Biram, Chaya Arbel, Samuel Brand, Hanan Rubin, Elyakim Haetzni, Hillel Oppenheimer, Paul Ben-Haim, Simcha Friedman, Mordechai Virshubski, Esther Herlitz, Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Yosef Goldschmidt, Menachem Bader, Benno Cohen, Micha Bar-Am, Yedidia Be'eri, Joseph Kastein, Shimon Kanovitch, Franz Ollendorff, Ze'ev Katz, Moshe Meron, Isaac Heinemann, Max Bodenheimer, Yaakov Ben-Tor, Benjamin Shapira, Manfred Aschner, Dov Tamari, Siegfried Lehman, Zvi Aharoni. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 164. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: ; May 3, 1924 September 22, 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) was born in Würzburg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish family, and was raised speaking both Hebrew and German. Amichai immigrated with his family at the age of 11 to Petah Tikva in Mandate Palestine in 1935, moving to Jerusalem in 1936. He attended Ma'aleh, a religious high school in Jerusalem. He was a member of the Palmach, the strike force of the Haganah, the defence force of the Jewish community in pre-state Israel. As a young man he volunteered and fought in World War II as a member of the British Army Jewish Brigade, and in the Negev on the southern front in the Israeli War of Independence. After the War of Independence, Amichai studied Bible and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew Universit...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=826477 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Midstream, published by Theodor Herzl Foundation on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2919 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Yehuda Amichai's Jerusalem.(Open Closed Open: Poems)(Book Review)
Author: Daniel Grossberg
Publication: Midstream (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Theodor Herzl Foundation
Volume: 50Issue: 4Page: 38(3)

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Chapters: Poet Laureate, Chaucer Coming in Contact With Petrarch or Boccaccio, Yehuda Amichai, Obo Aba Hisanjani, Dichter Des Vaderlands. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer coming in contact with Petrarch or Boccaccio has been a school of thought by scholars for centuries. Chaucer had made several trips to the mainland from England between 1367 and 1378 on the King's business as Esquire of the King. During at least one of these trips it is possible that he met Petrarch or Boccaccio or possibly both in Italy. Historian Donald Howard, Professor Walter William Skeat and Dr. Furnivall say there is good evidence to indicate that Chaucer met Petrarch at Arqua or Padua. There are government records that show Chaucer was absent from England visiting Genoa and Florence from December 1372 until the middle of 1373. He went with Sir James de Provan and John de Mari, eminent merchants hired by the king, and some soldiers and servants. During this Italian business trip for the king to arrange for a settlement of Genoese merchants these scholars say it is likely that sometime in 1373 Chaucer made contact with Petrarch or Boccaccio. Chaucer became a member of the royal court of King Edward III as a valet or esquire in June of 1367. Among his many jobs in this position he traveled to mainland Europe many times. On one of these trips in 1368 Chaucer may have attended the wedding of Prince Lionel of Antwerp to Violante, daughter of Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan. The above scholars write that he was very likely introduced to Petrarch at this wedding. Two other literary stars of the era were in attendance: Jean Froissart and Boccaccio. They believe there is a good chance Chaucer not only met Petrarch at this wedding, but met Boccaccio as well....More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26340735 ... Read more