Yeshurun Keshet
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Yeshurun Keshet | |
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| Native name | ישֻרוּן קֶשֶת |
| Born | Ya'akov Yehoshua Koplewitz November 29, 1893 |
| Died | February 22, 1977 (aged 83) |
| Resting place | Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Notable awards | Tchernichovsky Prize (1948) Bialik Prize (1976) |
| Spouse | Clara Hollander |
Yeshurun Keshet (Hebrew: ישֻרוּן קֶשֶת; 29 November 1893 – 22 February 1977), born Ya'akov Yehoshua Koplewitz, was an Israeli poet, essayist, translator and literary critic.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Keshet was born in Mińsk Mazowiecki, Congress Poland, and sent by his parents to Tel Aviv in 1911 to attend the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium. Between 1920 and 1926 he studied at universities in Rome and Berlin, and also taught in Marijampole, Lithuania.[1] He Hebraized his surname following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
Work
[edit | edit source]Keshet's volumes of poetry include Ha-Helekh ba-Aretz (1932), Elegyot (1944), and Ha-Ḥayyim ha-Genuzim (1959). Notable among his works of literary criticism is his monograph on Micha Josef Berdyczewski (1958).[2]
Keshet translated into Hebrew numerous classics of philosophy and literature, among them works by Winston Churchill, Moses Hess, William James, Franz Kafka, Jack London, Thomas Mann, and Romain Rolland.[3]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- Tchernichovsky Prize for the translation of the essays of Michel de Montaigne (1948)
- Kugel Prize from the Municipality of Holon (1968)
- Bialik Prize (1976)
References
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- 1893 births
- 1977 deaths
- 20th-century Israeli essayists
- 20th-century Israeli poets
- Brenner Prize recipients
- Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives
- Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium alumni
- Israeli essayists
- Israeli literary critics
- Israeli male poets
- Emigrants from Congress Poland to the Ottoman Empire
- Translators to Hebrew
- Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
- 20th-century Israeli translators
- Bialik Prize recipients