Yaakov Shabtai

Yaakov Shabtai, born in Tel Aviv on 8 March 1934 into a working-class family that had come from Poland, belonged to the Hashomer Hatzair movement, served in the army, then lived for about ten years at kibbutz Merhavia, where he wrote songs and worked the land, before returning to his city to write. A playwright staged at Habima and a lyricist, he rendered Pinter, O'Neill, Neil Simon and Noël Coward into Hebrew. His brother Aharon is a poet and a translator of ancient Greek. He died of a heart attack on 4 August 1981, aged forty-seven.

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• NovelPast Continuousזכרון דבריםYaakov Shabtai · 1977Literature