Yocheved Bat-Miriam (Hebrew: יוכבד בת-מרים; Russian: Иохевед Бат-Мирьям; pen name of Yocheved Zhlezniak) (5 March 1901 – 7 January 1980) was an Israeli poet. Bat-Miriam was Born in Belorussia to a Hasidic family. She studied pedagogy in Kharkov and at the universities of Odessa and Moscow. During this period, she participated in the revolutionary literary activities of the “Hebrew Octoberists”, a Communist literary group, and one of her earliest poem-cycles, a paean to revolutionary Russia entitled Erez (Land) was published in the group's anthology in 1926.[1] She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928.[2] Her first book of poetry, Merahok ("From a distance") was published in 1929. In 1948, her son Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz from the writer Haim Hazaz died in the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Since then she never wrote a poem again.
Yocheved Bat-Miriam | |
|---|---|
| Born | Yocheved Zhlezniak 5 March 1901 Belarus, Russian Empire |
| Died | 7 January 1980 (aged 78) Israel |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Nationality |  Israel |
| Notable works | Merahok ("From a Distance") |
| Notable awards |
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| Spouse | Haim Hazaz |
| Children | Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz |
Selected works
edit- 1929:[3] Merahok ("From a distance").
- 1937: Erets Yisra'el ("The Land of Israel").
- 1940:[4] Re'ayon ("Interview").
- 1942: Demuyot meofek ("Images from the Horizon").
- 1942: Mishirei Russyah ("Poems of Russia").
- 1943: Shirim La-Ghetto ("Poems for the Ghetto").
- 1963: Shirim ("Poems").
- 1975: Beyn Chol Va-Shemesh ("Between Sand and Sun").
- 2014: Machatzit Mul Machatzit : Kol Ha-Shirim ("Collected Poems").
Awards
edit- In 1963, Bat-Miriam was awarded the Brenner Prize for literature.[5]
- In 1964, Bat-Miriam was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature.[6]
- In 1972, she was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Zierler, Wendy. "Yokheved Bat Miriam (Zhelezhniak)". Jewish Women's Archive.
- ^ Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Yocheved Bat-Miriam – Curriculum Vitae Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Zierler 2004: 330 notes 1932 according to the yiddish translation (Merahok. Ben-Ari, R. Habimah. Tel Aviv 1932); cf. Gilboa 1982: 308.
- ^ Zierler 2004: 330 notes 1949.
- ^ "Conversation with Member of Hebrew Writers Association (in Hebrew)". Davar Newspaper, 17 December 1963
- ^ "List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933-2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2007.
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1972 (in Hebrew)".
Further reading
edit- The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself, 2nd new edition, by Stanley Burnshaw, T. Carmi, Susan Glassman, Ariel Hirschfield and Ezra Spicehandler (editors), published 31 March 2002, ISBN 0-8143-2485-1.
- A Language Silenced : The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union, by Jehoshua A. Gilboa. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, published 1982, ISBN 0838630723 / ISBN 978-0838630723
- And Rachel Stole the Idols : The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing, by Wendy Zierler. Wayne State Univ. Press, published 2004, ISBN 0814331475 / ISBN 978-0814331477.
External links
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