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The Renaissance Man from Odessa

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Shaul Tchernihovsky was a physician, linguist, naturalist, and poet who translated from 15 different literatures into Hebrew.
Music:
Shlomo Artzi - You don’t know
Yarden Bar Kochva -They say there is a land
Arik Lavie -I believe
Book: The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself. Edited Burnshaw, Carmi, Glassman, Hirschfeld and Spicehandler. (Wayne State University 2003)

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Jun 3, 2014

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Exploring Israeli literature in English translation. Host Marcela Sulak takes you through Israel’s literary countryside, cityscapes, and psychological terrain, and the lives of the people who create it.

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Rahel The Poet: The mother of Hebrew Poetry, and one of the first women poet's in theHebrew language since the Biblical Deborah. She switched from paining artand playing music to painting with the soil and playing with the hoe. Book: Flowers of Perhaps. A... by Israel in Translation
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The spectacular fly in the ointment of the Andalusian-Jewish elite: It's great to be living in a city whose streets are named for so many poets and writers, but who are these people and what exactly did they write? In this segment we'll learn about the main north-south street of Tel Aviv, Ibn Gavirol, and the... by Israel in Translation
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Yocheved Bat Miriam, a poet on the threshold: Yocheved Bat Miriam is unique among Hebrew language poets for holding the land of her birth and the land of her life in equal esteem. Born in Russia in 1901, she published her first book of poetry, Merahok ("From a distance"), in Palestine in 1929. A... by Israel in Translation
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Defeating armies and taking names: How two Israeli women defeated a few ancient armies and saved the day — and then wrote a little poem about it. Today we explore the life and poetry of that force to be reckoned with, Deborah the Prophet. With sounds from: The Bible, narrated... by Israel in Translation
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The Andalusian poet who turned complaining into an art form: Moshe Ben Ezra was a fine Andalusian poet, as well as the chief of the Granada police. Listen to a couple of poems from the guy who made complaining a form of art. Book: The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian... by Israel in Translation
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A poet tough as nails: Hannah Szenes was only 23 years old when she was executed before a firing squad in Nazi-occupied Budapest. She was attempting to rescue Jews who were about to be deported to Auschwitz. In her short life, she became a poet, farmer, and... by Israel in Translation
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Know your roots: The Founder of Hebrew Spanish Poetry, Dunash ben Labrat, also made your ulpan studies possible. He was the first to distinguish between transitive and intransitive verbs in Hebrew, and to catalog verbs by the 3-letter roots. His smart, talented wife... by Israel in Translation
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There was a dream; it passed: Hayyim Nahman Bialik was one of the pioneers of Hebrew poetry. Hear the National Poet of Israel sung by Arik Einstein, who created the"Soundtrack of Israel." Find out about the fascinating Bialik house, and his songs and activities for... by Israel in Translation
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The founder of Cultural Zionism: Just one of the people: Ahad Ha'am Street occupies the heart of Tel Aviv; it's full of grand Bauhaus buildings and artistic cafes, with Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue on the corner. Ahad Ha'am means "one of the people" in Hebrew, and is the pen name of Asher Zvi Ginzberg, the... by Israel in Translation
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A poet beloved by one and all: The poet Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky was Amos Oz's first love, first cousin to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and beloved by all Israelis, religious or secular. Book: The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems. Trans. Marcia Falk. Cincinnati, Hebrew Union... by Israel in Translation
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The Renaissance Man from Odessa: Shaul Tchernihovsky was a physician, linguist, naturalist, and poet who translated from 15 different literatures into Hebrew. Music: Shlomo Artzi - You don’t know Yarden Bar Kochva -They say there is a land Arik Lavie -I believe Book: The... by Israel in Translation
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The cloudy skies of Tuvya Ruebner: Winter is the rainy season in sunny Israel, and in general we welcome the rare, rain-filled clouds. Tuvya Ruebner's poems are full of clouds in Rachel Tzvia Back's wonderful new translation of his selected poems, In the Illuminated Dark. After... by Israel in Translation
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Young and strong and living through a big adventure: Passing by Anne Frank St in Tel Aviv has inspired us to take a fresh look at the young diarist whose words inspired the world. Before she died in Bergen Belsen, Anne Frank said, "Despite everything, I believe that people are, at heart, really... by Israel in Translation
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Mendele Mocher Sforim: The grandfather of Yiddish literature, and one of the founders of “modern” Jewish literature, Mendele Mocher Sforim. He "wanted to be useful to his people rather than gain literary laurels,” and his satirical, critical stories got... by Israel in Translation
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The hymnal poet-paver of the roads of Israel: Called 'Lashonsky' for his comic wit, linguistic innovations and irrepressible puns, every child in Israel knows Avraham Shlonsky's version of the German Rumpelstiltskin fairytale: Utzli Gutzli. His upbringing was one of religion and agricultural... by Israel in Translation
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Ruth the Moabite: Judaism's most famous convert: 'Ruth' is a little street in Tel Aviv, nested near Dizengoff Square and off the other little streets named after Biblical heroines such as 'Esther HaMalka.' Both Ruth and Esther were immigrants, and so it's appropriate that the Ministry of Absorbtion... by Israel in Translation
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Yom Kippur's Poetry of Awe: Today we explore Yom Kippur through the poetry of Yehuda Amichai and Shelley Elkayam, and the music of Leonard Cohen and Chayim Moshe. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, when God seals the verdict on each person's fate for the... by Israel in Translation
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Rivka Miriam on asking forgiveness: We're now in the month of Elul, the last month in the Jewish calendar, which leads up to the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur festivals. We explore Elul's themes of creation and forgiveness through two poems by Rivka Miriam. Rivka Miriam was a... by Israel in Translation
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Sukkot special: The fragility of the etrog: Today we explore the etrog, a powerful symbol of the holiday of Sukkot, through a short story by Shai Agnon and a poem by Orit Gidali. Agnon's story 'That Tzaddik’s Etrog,' translated by Shira Leibowitz and Moshe Kohn, is a parable about a... by Israel in Translation
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