61. The Diameter Of The Bomb The Diameter of the Bomb. yehuda amichai The Diameter of the Bomb, from THE SELECTED POETRY OF yehuda amichai, by yehuda amichai. Translated by Chana Bloch. http://www.greatbooks.org/soul/sample.html

The Soul of the Text An Anthology of Jewish Literature Home Junior Great Books Adult Great Books Training in Shared Inquiry ... Order Sample selection The Diameter of the Bomb Yehuda Amichai The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God. Questions for Discussion Does the poem suggest that God either does not exist or else is powerless against our capacity to do evil? Why are the circumstances of the bombing never mentioned? Why are none of the people in the poem, nor any of the cities or countries, ever named? Why is the bomb on which the poet chooses to focus our attention relatively small?

62. Yehuda Amichai yehuda amichai, considerat un dels principals autors de la poesia hebrea contemporània, va néixer l any 1924 a Würzburg, Alemanya, fill d una família http://www.israel-sheli.info/yehuda_amichai.html

www.israel-sheli.info Home Notícies Israel Literatura ... Guestbook Yehuda Amichai - Obres Articles i textos Entrevistes Ressenyes ... Links Fotografia i informació biogràfica obtingudes de l' Institut per la Traducció de la Literatura Hebrea * (juliol 2003) Yehuda Amichai, considerat un dels principals autors de la poesia hebrea contemporània, va néixer l'any 1924 a Würzburg, Alemanya, fill d'una família religiosa en la que va créixer parlant dos idiomes, hebreu i alemany. L'any 1935 va emigrar amb els seus pares a Israel, on va acabar els estudis secundaris en un institut religiós. Posteriorment va servir a les Brigades Jueves de l'Exèrcit Britànic durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, i més endavant en una unitat d'èlite del Palmach durant la Guerra de la Independència d'Israel el 1948. Va estudiar Literatura i Estudis Bíblics a la Universitat Hebrea de Jerusalem, i va exercir com a professor en nombroses institucions acadèmiques d'Israel i d'altres països. Amichai, si més aviat és conegut per la seva poesia, traduïda a 33 llengües, també va publicar dues novel·les, una antologia de contes, tres llibres per a nens i algunes peces de teatre que han estat representades a Israel.

63. Yehuda Amichai Home Page Articles in English yehuda amichai. In Memoriam yehuda amichai Jerusalem’s Poet. By Tekla Szymanski. yehuda amichai. http://www.tekla-szymanski.com/engl6amichai.html

Articles in English Israel: No Peace, No Process? The Israeli Press Reacts to the Road Map: Bumpy Road Ahead The Israeli Press Reacts to the Prisoner Exchange with Hizbollah New York Stories: ... Jewish Lawyers Defending Anti-Semites? In Memoriam Yehuda Amichai In Memoriam Hildegard Knef 2000... And the Emperor Still Has No Clothes The World Press on: Austria Czech Republic Denmark France ... Turkey People Making Headlines in... Home Page Articles in English Yehuda Amichai In Memoriam Yehuda Amichai: By Tekla Szymanski He fought as a volunteer in the British Army and later in the Palmach, the underground pre-Israeli-state commando force. He studied literature and biblical studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and taught at a secondary school for many years. During his long and prolific career, he wrote about 1,000 poems and published 25 books of poetry. He received the 1982 Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature, the Brenner and Bialik prizes, and was also a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. Yediot Aharonot Yediot Aharonot Home Page Articles in English Yehuda Amichai

64. Yehuda Amichai -- In Memoriam -- 1 October 2000 When Yitzhak Rabin accepted the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in 1994, he read an early poem by yehuda amichai entitled “God http://perimeter.home.att.net/yehuda.html

Yehuda Amichai: 1924-2000 in memoriam When Yitzhak Rabin accepted the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in 1994, he read an early poem by Yehuda Amichai entitled “God Takes Pity on Kindergarten Children.” As translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, the poem begins: God takes pity on kindergarten children, Less on schoolchildren. On grownups, He won’t take pity anymore. He leaves them alone. Sometimes they have to crawl on all fours In the blazing sand, To get to the first aid station Dripping blood. The Israeli poet died September 22, not in the blazing sand of a battlefield but at Hadassah Hospital in a suburb of his beloved city of Jerusalem. He was a soldier in four wars—in World War II and in the formative wars of the modern state of Israel—but, like Rabin (a hero of the Six Day War), he was finally and above all devoted to peace. A consumate modernist, he agreed with Nietzsche that God was dead, but nevertheless wrote eloquently on biblical topics. His insights were conveyed simply and with great humor; for example, when he explained how the only true hero of the sacrifice of Isaac was the ram, or when he asked the rhetorical question: And what about God? According to the settlement

65. A Touch Of Grace- Yehuda Amichai MFA MFA Library 2000_2009 2001 Dec A Touch of Grace yehuda amichai. A Touch of Grace- yehuda amichai. 20 Dec 2001. A Touch of Grace yehuda amichai. http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfaarchive/2000_2009/2001/12/A Touch of Grace- Yehuda

PH_DoValidation=true; My MFA Search Advanced search MFA newsletter MFA MFA Library Dec A Touch of Grace- Yehuda Amichai A Touch of Grace- Yehuda Amichai 20 Dec 2001 The Israel Review of Arts and Letters - 2001/112 FOREWORD COEXISTENCE MUSEUM AMICHAI BIBLE ... CREDITS A Touch of Grace: Yehuda Amichai The following poems by the late Jerusalem poet, Yehuda Amichai , were among those published in "A Touch of Grace," published by the Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, 2000. At times Jerusalem is a city of knives, And even the hopes for peace are sharp enough to slice into The harsh reality and they become dulled or broken. The church bells try so hard to ring out calm, round tones, But they become heavy like a pestle pounding on a mortar, Heavy, muffled, downtrodding voices. And the cantor And the muezzin try to sing sweetly But in the end the sharp wail bursts forth: O Lord, God of us all, The Lord is One One, one, one, one. Translated by Irena Gordon (The Hebrew word for "one" also means "sharp" in Hebrew) Love of Jerusalem There is a street where they sell only red meat And there is a street where they sell only clothes and perfumes. And there is a day when I see only cripples and the blind

66. Yehuda Amichai- Poems MFA MFA Library 2000_2009 2003 Sep yehuda amichai Poems. yehuda amichai- Poems. 6 Sep 2003. The Israel Review of Arts and Letters - 1996/102. Poems yehuda amichai. http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfaarchive/2000_2009/2003/9/Yehuda Amichai- Poems

PH_DoValidation=true; My MFA Search Advanced search MFA newsletter MFA MFA Library Sep Yehuda Amichai- Poems Yehuda Amichai- Poems 6 Sep 2003 The Israel Review of Arts and Letters - 1996/102 TOC KING DAVID MONTEFIORE FOLK ART ... DRAWINGS Poems Yehuda Amichai Tourists Once I sat on the steps by a gate at David's TowerI placed my two heavy baskets at my side. A group of tourists was standing aroundtheir guide and I became their target marker."You see that man with the baskets?Just right of his head there's an arch from the Roman period. Just right of his head." "But he's moving, he's moving!" I said to myself: redemption will come only if their guide tells them, "You see that arch fromthe Roman period? It's not important: but next to it,left and down a bit, there sits a man who's bought fruit and vegetables for his family". Jerusalem Poems from "Songs to Jerusalem" Every night God takes his glittering merchandise out of his showcase - holy charriots, tables of law, fancy beads,crosses and bells - and puts them back into dark boxes inside and pulls down the shutters: "Againnot one prophet has come to buy." Translated by Y.A. and Ted Hughes

67. Yehuda Amichai, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Fall 1998, Baruch College yehuda amichai. yehuda amichai, the prominent, internationally known Israeli poet, was on campus in Fall 1998 as the first Sidney Harman Writerin-Residence. http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/harman/amichai.html

Yehuda Amichai Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Fall 1998 Now and in Other Days Two Hopes Away In the Park Collected Poems Poems Songs of Jerusalem and Myself Amen Time Love Poems Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with Fingers (1991), and Yehuda Amichai: A Life of Poetry , 1948-1994 (1994). His most recent collection, Open Closed Open , appeared in this country in the year 2000. His play A Journey to Nineveh was produced by the Habimah National Theatre in Tel Aviv in 1964. He is also the author of a novel, Not of This Time, Not of This Place (1964), and a collection of short stories, The World Is a Room (1985). An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Mr. Amichai has been the recipient of numerous international honors. Born in 1924 in Wurzburg, Germany, Mr. Amichai immigrated with his parents to Palestine in 1936. He served in the British Army in World War II and afterward in the Haganah underground. He also saw active service in the Israeli War of Independence and the Sinai Campaign. He lives in Jerusalem. God Takes Pity on Kindergarten Children God takes pity on kindergarten children

68. Author Yehuda Amichai, From The Oldpoetry Poetry Archive yehuda amichai (next poet) I was from Isreal, and I lived from 19242000. Print or Buy my poetry? Poems by yehuda amichai First 7 shown of 33. Browse all . http://oldpoetry.com/authors/Yehuda Amichai

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71. The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai (Literature Of The Middle East) The Selected Poetry of yehuda amichai (Literature of the Middle East). The Selected Poetry of yehuda amichai (Literature of the Middle East) Related Products http://www.world-literature.com/The_Selected_Poetry_of_Yehuda_Amichai_Literature

The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Literature of the Middle East) The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Literature of the Middle East) by Authors: Yehuda Amichai , Chana Bloch , Stephen Mitchell Released: October, 1996 ISBN: 0520205383 Paperback Sales Rank: List price: Our price: You save: Book > The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Literature of the Middle East) > Customer Reviews: Average Customer Rating: The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Literature of the Middle East) > Customer Review #1: Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant I recently bought this on a whim at the book store and was pleased at it turning out to be one of my best purchases. Instantly one of my favorites, Amichai writes with the perfect mixture of narrative and metaphor, balancing his poetry perfectly on the line between clarity and obscurity. His metaphors are original, concise, and leave you thinking. At the same time, Amichais poetry is not inaccesible. His writing is simple enough to grasp the first time through, but also complex enough for you to peel away the layers of meaning as you read again and again. While some of the poetry is political or cultural in nature (Amichai is an Israeli and Jew), dont let that discourage you from thinking it doesnt have any application to your life. Like Chaim Potok, Amichai breathes a life into his words that enlightens you toward lifes simplicities, regardless of your background. Top notch stuff.

72. Yehuda Amichai : A Life Of Poetry, 1948-1994 yehuda amichai A Life of Poetry, 19481994. yehuda Book yehuda amichai A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994 Customer Reviews Average http://www.world-literature.com/Yehuda_Amichai__A_Life_of_Poetry_19481994_006092

Yehuda Amichai : A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994 Yehuda Amichai : A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994 by Authors: Yehuda Amichai , Benjamin Harshav Released: 11 October, 1995 ISBN: 006092666X Paperback Sales Rank: List price: Our price: You save: Book > Yehuda Amichai : A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994 > Customer Reviews: Average Customer Rating: Yehuda Amichai : A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994 > Customer Review #1: "Hearts without rations, prophecies without water" "Pain is a grandfather:/Sired two generations/of look-alike pains." Not a single poem in this collection is superfluous. Each leads to the next and weaves a tapestry of images. Poetry in general, when it is really good, has the ability to touch you on a level you did not think possible. "If we dont remain together, we wont remain at all. Let alone life." It expresses thoughts and feelings in words you could not find. "Eternity is a perfect/Form of mutual loneliness." It introduces new angles to old ideas or contributes poignancy to unconsidered thoughts. Sometimes, the experience of the poet is foreign to the reader, but the reader can still feel on some level the feeling the poet felt. Amichai is among my favorite poets for his ability to create such a rich and sudden injection of reaction in me. I find it unfortunate that I dont read Hebrew and have to read Amichais poetry in the "lie of translation". I suspect a great deal is lost, but I still cannot fault what access I do have to these poems. lt;P>I cannot do much justice to Amichai with descriptive words. You will have to read it yourself. I know poetry is not necessarily everyones favorite thing, but I think it is an acquired taste.

73. The Early Books Of Yehuda Amichai. (in MARION) The early books of yehuda amichai. Title The early books of yehuda amichai. Author amichai, yehuda. Schimmel, Harold. Hughes, Ted, 1930; Gutmann, Assia. http://catalog.evanston.lib.il.us/MARION/AAA-7162

The early books of Yehuda Amichai. Title: The early books of Yehuda Amichai. Author: Amichai, Yehuda. Schimmel, Harold. Hughes, Ted, 1930- Gutmann, Assia. Published: Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y. : The Sheep Meadow Press, [1988?] Subject: Amichai, Yehuda Translations, English. Jerusalem Poetry. Material: 194 p. Note: Songs of Jerusalem and myself / translated by Harold Schimmel Poems / translated by Ted Hughes and Assia Gutmann Time. LC Card no: ISBN: System ID no: AAA-7162 Holdings: Floor 2 - Non-Fiction CALL NUMBER: 892.416 Amich.Y Adult Book Available If you have a valid library card, you may place a hold on this title for pickup at the library. Results from the Evanston Public Library catalog. Start another search Top New Search Information About Your Library Account ... Evanston Information Server Please send comments, suggestions, or bug reports to the webmaster

74. Yehuda Amichai, A Life Of Poetry, 1948-1994 (in MARION) yehuda amichai, a life of poetry, 19481994. Title yehuda amichai, a life by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav. Author amichai, yehuda. http://catalog.evanston.lib.il.us/MARION/ABU-8976

Yehuda Amichai, a life of poetry, 1948-1994 Title: Yehuda Amichai, a life of poetry, 1948-1994 / selected and translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav. Author: Amichai, Yehuda. Harshav, Benjamin, 1928- Harshav, Barbara, 1940- Published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1994. Edition: 1st ed. Subject: Amichai, Yehuda Translations into English. Material: xv, 477 p. ; 24 cm. Note: Includes index. LC Card no: ISBN: Other ID no: dbsrvr::lcmarc/ARZ-5497/CATALOG System ID no: ABU-8976 Holdings: Floor 2 - Non-Fiction CALL NUMBER: 892.416 Amich.Y Adult Book Available If you have a valid library card, you may place a hold on this title for pickup at the library. Results from the Evanston Public Library catalog. Start another search Top New Search Information About Your Library Account ... Evanston Information Server Please send comments, suggestions, or bug reports to the webmaster

75. The New York Review Of Books: Yehuda Amichai Bibliography of books and articles by yehuda amichai, from The New York Review of Books. The New York Review of Books. yehuda amichai. http://www.nybooks.com/authors/360

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76. Poetry Magazine FEATURED POET ARCHIVES yehuda amichai The School Where I Studied I passed by the school where I studied as a boy and said in my heart here I learned certain http://www.poetrymagazine.org/featured_poet_090199.html

CURRENT ISSUE POETRY Magazine FEATURED POET ARCHIVES YEHUDA AMICHAI The School Where I Studied I passed by the school where I studied as a boy and said in my heart: here I learned certain things and didn't learn others. All my life I have loved in vain the things I didn't learn. I am filled with knowledge, I know all about the flowering of the tree of knowledge, the shape of its leaves, the function of its root system, its pests and parasites. I'm an expert on the botany of good and evil, I'm still studying it, I'll go on studying till the day I die. I stood near the school building and looked in. This is the room where we sat and learned. The windows of a classroom always open to the future, but in our innocence we thought it was only landscape we were seeing from the window. The schoolyard was narrow, paved with large stones. I remember the brief tumult of the two of us near the rickety steps, the tumult

77. Articles yehuda amichai on Poetry transcription by Jane Katz In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Loft Mentor Series, this article featuring the late http://www.loft.org/YehudaAmichai.html

About the View Submissions Subscriptions Advertising ... E-Mail DECEMBER/JANUARY Why Revise? by Mary Carroll Moore Am I Hearing Voices? by Erin Lynn Marsh Playing Favorites by Sarah Anderson Phebe Hanson by Paulette DesJardins Cinderella by Phebe Hanson Program Notes Hanging Out with Nikki Giovanni by Lynn Levine Kaleidoscope: opportunities, classifieds Loft Member News The Blue Shadows of Melancholy by Susan E. Erickson poetry by Barbara Tarrant Got Game? by Bao Phi High on Dry by Antay Bilgutay Calendar of Events Yehuda Amichai on Poetry transcription by Jane Katz In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Loft Mentor Series, this article featuring the late internationally acclaimed poet and 1984 mentor Yehuda Amichai is reprinted from A View from the Loft, January 1985. Not of This Time, Not of This Place. He spoke with humility and humor, in heavily-accented English, gesturing frequently for emphasis. He spoke in graphic images of his love affair with poetry and life.

78. Yehuda Amichai Open Closed Open Poems Open Closed Open Poems In the centerpiece of Open Closed Open, the Israeli poet yehuda amichai ponders his most treasured keepsake, a http://jewish-books.net/search_Yehuda_Amichai/searchBy_Author.html

Home Search High Volume Orders Links ... Mikvah Additional Subjects The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour Judges Jr Saint Augustine Gardens of New Orleans: Exquisite Excess ... Stanley Levenson Featured Books The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai I recently bought this on a whim at the book store and was pleased at it turning out to be one of my best purchases. Instantly one of my favorites, Amichai writes with the perfect mixture of narrative and metaphor, balancing his poetry perfectly on the line between clarity and obscurity. His metaphors are original, concise, and leave you thinking. At the same time, Amichai's poetry is not inaccesible. His writing is simple enough to grasp the first time through, but also complex enough for yo... Written by Yehuda Amichai Chana Bloch Stephen Mitchell Published by University of California Press (October 1996) ISBN 0520205383 Price $14.35 Open Closed Open: Poems In the centerpiece of Open Closed Open, the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai ponders his most treasured keepsake, "a triangular fragment of stone from a Jewish graveyard destroyed / many generations ago." This object is, needless to say, more than a souvenir: throughout the zigzagging lines of "The Amen Stone," it allows Amichai to reconstruct bits and pieces of the past, "fragment to fragment, / like the resurrection of the dead, a mosaic, / a jigsaw puzzle. Child's play." The ensuing narrative l... Written by

79. The Drunken Boat AlkalayGut in Spring 2000 Iris Le al Leah Rudnitsky Ben Zion Tomer Poems by Karen in Spring 2000 _ Email Ms. Karen Alkalay-Gut, yehuda amichai from Gods http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/amichai.htm

Yehuda Amichai is widely published and translated. Visit the Yehuda Amichai page at bn.com Other translations by Karen Alkalay-Gut in this issue: Miriam Baruch Chalfi Raquel Chalfi Yaffa Zins A feature on Karen's new book In My Skin Translations by Karen Alkalay-Gut in Spring 2000: Iris Le'al Leah Rudnitsky Ben Zion Tomer Poems by Karen in Spring 2000 Email Ms. Karen Alkalay-Gut Yehuda Amichai from Gods Come and Go, Prayers Remain Forever On the street, one summer evening, I saw a woman writing words on paper unfolded on a locked wooden door. And she folded it and put it between the door and the mezuzah and went away. And I didn't see her face nor the face of the person who would read the note, and I didn't see the words. A stone rests on my desk with the word "Amen" written on it. It is a piece of a tomb, a vestige from a Jewish cemetery destroyed a thousand years ago, in the city where I was born. One word, "Amen," is cut deep into the stone—

80. The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, Newly Revised And Expande yehuda amichai The Selected Poetry Of yehuda amichai, Newly Revised and Expanded edition Literature of the Middle East Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6828.html

Entire Site Books Journals E-Editions The Press Yehuda Amichai The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, Newly Revised and Expanded edition Literature of the Middle East Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. Publication Date: October 1996 Subjects: Jewish Studies Poetry Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies ... Literature in Translation Rights: World 192 pages Paperback Available Now Description About the Author Related Books "Yehuda Amichai's splendid poems, refined and cast in the desperate foundries of the Middle East, where life and faith are always at stake, exhibit a majestic and Biblical range of the topography of the soul."Anthony Hecht DESCRIPTION (back to top) Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this revised and expanded collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems, including forty new poems from his recent work. from Tourists :Once I was sitting on the steps near the gate at David's Citadel and I put down my two heavy baskets beside me. A group of tourists stood there around their guide, and I became their point of reference. "You see that man over there with the baskets? A little to the right of his head there's an arch from the Roman period. A little to the right of his head." "But he's moving, he's moving!" I said to myself: Redemption will come only when they are told, "Do you see that arch over there from the Roman period? It doesn't matter, but near it, a little to the left and then down a bit, there's a man who has just bought fruit and vegetables for his family."

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