Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israels National Poet (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)

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Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth centurys (and Israels) leading poets. In this remarkable book Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichais early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvre untapped notebooks and a cache of unpublished letters to a woman identified as Ruth Z. that Gold discovered convincingly demonstrates how the poets German past infused his work despite his attempts to conceal it as he adopted an Israeli identity.