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Leah Goldberg, 1946

Leah Goldberg (Hebrew: לאה גולדברג‎, May 29, 1911 — January 15, 1970) was a prolific Hebrew poet, and a translator and researcher of Hebrew literature. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

1 Biography
2 Literary style
3 Children's literature
4 Critical acclaim
5 References
6 Further reading

Biography

Born in Königsberg^[1], Goldberg studied in Lithuania and Germany, specialising in philosophy and Semitic languages. Königsberg (Karaliaučius Low German: Königsbarg; Królewiec see also other names) was until 1946 the name of Kaliningrad. Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language The Semitic languages are a Language family whose living representatives are spoken by more than 467 million people across much of the Middle East, She received a Ph.D. in Semitic languages from the University of Bonn in 1933, before moving to Mandatory Palestine in 1935. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia The Palestine Mandate, was a set of protocols or articles that formed a multilateral legal and administrative agreement

Goldberg settled in Tel Aviv where she worked as a literary adviser to Habimah, the national theater, and an editor for the publishing company Sifriyat HaPoalim ("Workers' Library"). Tel Aviv-Yafo (תֵּל ־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ تل أبيب Tal ʾAbīb) (usually Tel Aviv) is the second-largest city in Israel Habima National Theatre (הבימה - התיאטרון הלאומי lit In 1954, she became a lecturer in literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים الجامعة العبرية في القدس abbreviated HUJI) is From 1963, she headed the university's Department of Comparative Literature.

Goldberg, who spoke seven languages, translated numerous foreign works into Hebrew. Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation Her translations from Russian and Italian are of particular note.

Literary style

Goldberg had a modernist literary style that may superficially look uncomplicated. She writes in a poem about her own style that "lucid and transparent / are my images". Although she sometimes chose to write poems that do not rhyme (especially in her later period), she always respected questions of rhythm; moreover, in her "antique" works (e. g. , the set of love poems The Sonnets of Theresa di Mon, a false document about the love-longings of a married French noblewoman to a young tutor), Goldberg adopted complex rhyming schemes. A false document is a form of Verisimilitude that attempts to create a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected Suspension of disbelief for a Work A very elaborate style that she sometimes used was the thirteen-line sonnet. The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in Lyric poetry from Europe.

Loneliness and the breakdown of relationships are common themes in her poetry, with a tragic intonation that some say originates in her own loneliness. Her work is deeply rooted in Western culture (for instance, the Odyssey) and Jewish culture. The Odyssey ( Greek: Ὀδύσσεια or Odússeia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Some of her most well known poems are about nature and longing for the landscape of her homeland (and not Israel as many presume). For example:

My homeland, a poor and fair land

The Queen has no home, the King has no crown

And there are seven days of spring-time a year

All the rest are rain and chill.

Children's literature

Goldberg's books for children, among them Dira Lehaskir ("Apartment for Rent") have become classics of Hebrew children's literature.

Critical acclaim

Goldberg received the Rubin Prize and the Israel Prize for Literature. The Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel.

References

^ , Germany, Leah Goldberg listed two contradictory birth places: in a 1956 biographical manuscript she wrote that she was born in Königsberg, but when filling in a form for the Israeli authors' association in 1964 she listed her birth place as Kaunas. Kaunas ( ˈkoʊnəs is the second largest City in Lithuania and a former temporary capital. The accepted birth place is Königsberg.

Contents

Biography

Literary style

Children's literature

Critical acclaim

References

Further reading