Saul Tchernichovsky

Saul Tchernikovsky was born in 1875 in the village of Mikhailovka, in Taurida; he read Russian from the age of five and learned Hebrew from his father at seven. He published his first verses as a teenager, in Odessa, studied medicine at Heidelberg from 1899 to 1906 and completed his studies at Lausanne. A doctor in Kharkov and Kiev, then a military doctor during the First World War, he left Russia in 1922. A translator of the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Kalevala, he settled in Palestine in 1931, was school doctor of Tel Aviv there and died in Jerusalem in 1943.

In the catalogue 2

• Poetryחזיונות ומנגינותSaul Tchernichovsky · 1898not translated into EnglishLiterature
• Poetryאומרים ישנה ארץSaul Tchernichovsky · 1923not translated into EnglishLiterature