Yocheved Bat-Miriam
Israeli poet (1901–1980)
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Yocheved Bat-Miriam (Hebrew: יוכבד בת-מרים; Russian: Иохевед Бат-Мирьям; pen name of Yocheved Zhlezniak) (5 March 1901 – 7 January 1980) was an Israeli poet. Bat-Miriam was Born in Belorussia to a Hasidic family. She studied pedagogy in Kharkov and at the universities of Odessa and Moscow. During this period, she participated in the revolutionary literary activities of the “Hebrew Octoberists”, a Communist literary group, and one of her earliest poem-cycles, a paean to revolutionary Russia entitled Erez (Land) was published in the group's anthology in 1926.[1] She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928.[2] Her first book of poetry, Merahok ("From a distance") was published in 1929. In 1948, her son Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz from the writer Haim Hazaz died in the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Since then she never wrote a poem again.
Yocheved Bat-Miriam | |
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יוכבד בת-מרים | |
| Born | Yocheved Zhlezniak 5 March 1901 |
| Died | 7 January 1980 (aged 78) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Spouse | Haim Hazaz |
| Children | Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz |
| Writing career | |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Notable work | Merahok ("From a Distance") |
| Notable awards |
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Selected works
- 1929:[3] Merahok ("From a distance").
- 1937: Erets Yisra'el ("The Land of Israel").
- 1940:[4] Re'ayon ("Interview").
- 1942: Demuyot meofek ("Images from the Horizon").
- 1942: Mishirei Russyah ("Poems of Russia").
- 1943: Shirim La-Ghetto ("Poems for the Ghetto").
- 1963: Shirim ("Poems").
- 1975: Beyn Chol Va-Shemesh ("Between Sand and Sun").
- 2014: Machatzit Mul Machatzit : Kol Ha-Shirim ("Collected Poems").
Awards
- In 1963, Bat-Miriam was awarded the Brenner Prize for literature.[5]
- In 1964, Bat-Miriam was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature.[6]
- In 1972, she was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.[7]
