In this anthology by the Israeli poet, Jerusalem dominates as Amichai delights in contrasting the city's religious imagery with the mundane concerns of daily life therein. An erotic subtext is often ...

Among readers of the hugely popular Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai (born Ludwig Pfeuffer, in Würzburg, Germany), perhaps the most acutely perceptive was the American poet Anthony Hecht. Reacting to ...

Yale University will host an international conference on October 20 and 21 celebrating the life and work of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. The conference, “Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai’s World ...

For nearly 20 years, Henry Lyman hosted a radio program called Poems to a Listener out of WFCR in Amherst, Mass. He interviewed leading American poets of the day — writers like Richard Wilbur, Robert ...

Yehuda Amichai, who was born a hundred years ago on May 3, was a rare literary phenomenon. A bestseller in his home country, Israel, he was also something of a sensation internationally, with ...

In a 1992 interview with the Paris Review the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai recalled his first encounter with modern poetry during the Second World War, while stationed in the Egyptian desert as a ...

(JTA) — Jewish actress, writer and director Lena Dunham announced to her 3.2 million followers on Instagram that she has connected to Judaism through the poetry of modern Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai.

An astonishing revision of the prevailing critical analysis of the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, based on newly discovered materials Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century’s (and Israel’s) leading ...

Haviva Pedaya and Mois Ben Harash are the recipients of this year’s Yehuda Amichai Prize for Hebrew Poetry, the award’s panel announced, with the NIS 30,000 purse to be granted at a Jerusalem ceremony ...

Jesus Christ is our peace,” said the pope in his Urbi et Orbi message, with him hatred and violence are rejected. Looking to the world, the pontiff appealed for ...