Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems: A Bilinggual Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781878818195)

This volume of work by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai contains two of his collections in full. This is a bilingual edition with English translations alongside the Hebrew originals.

Author: Yehuda Amichai
ISBN-10: 1878818198
ISBN-13: 9781878818195
Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1992
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.16h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/1992

About the Author
Yehuda Amichai was born in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1924 and emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936. Amichai published eleven volumes of poetry in Hebrew, two novels, and a book of short stories. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. In 1982, Amichai received the Israel Prize for Poetry, and he became a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986. He lived in Jerusalem until his death on September 25, 2000.