Leah Goldberg

Leah Goldberg was born in 1911 in Königsberg, into a Jewish family from Kaunas where she grew up, and learned Hebrew as a child, at school. She studied philosophy and Semitic languages in Kaunas, Berlin and Bonn, where she defended a doctorate on the Samaritan Targum. Settled in Tel Aviv in 1935, she joined the group of poets gathered around Avraham Shlonsky and wrote for newspapers and for children. She later taught at the Hebrew University, where in 1960 she founded the department of general and comparative literature, and died in Jerusalem in 1970.

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• NovelAnd This Is the Lightוהוא האורLeah Goldberg · 1946Literature