Yehuda Amichai

Ludwig Pfeuffer, who took the name Yehuda Amichai, was born in Würzburg on 3 May 1924 into an Orthodox Jewish family and arrived in Palestine with his family in 1935, at the age of eleven; they lived in Petah Tikva, then in Jerusalem. He served in the British army during the war and fought in 1948 in the Negev Brigade, then studied literature and the Bible at the Hebrew University and taught for many years at a secondary school in Jerusalem. The first poet of the generation of the State to receive the Israel Prize, in 1982, he died in Jerusalem on 22 September 2000.

In the catalogue 1

• Poetryעכשיו ובימים האחריםYehuda Amichai · 1955not translated into EnglishLiterature