Nathan Alterman

Nathan Alterman was born in Warsaw on 14 August 1910; his father, Yitzhak, had helped found the Hebrew kindergartens there. The family, which left Warsaw during the war, settled in Tel Aviv in 1925. After the Herzliya Gymnasium, he studied in France, from where he returned in 1932 with a diploma in agricultural engineering. He wrote rhymed columns in Haaretz, then, from 1943 to 1967, the Seventh Column of the daily Davar, and translated Shakespeare, Racine and Molière. He received the Israel Prize in 1968 and died in Tel Aviv in 1970.

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• Poetryכוכבים בחוץNathan Alterman · 1938not translated into EnglishLiterature