Yitzhak Orpaz

Yitzhak Averbuch, known as Orpaz, born at Zinkiv in Ukraine on 15 October 1921, grew up at Lipcani, in Bessarabia, and arrived alone in Palestine in 1938 through youth emigration; he joined a kibbutz core group at Magdiel. At the end of 1942 news reached him that his parents and sister had disappeared in Transnistria. He served in the Jewish Brigade, then as an artillery officer in 1948. A story he sent to a competition was awarded a prize, and to read it on the radio he was asked to Hebraize his name. He studied philosophy late in life, was a night editor at Al ha-Mishmar and received the Israel Prize in 2005.

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• NarrativeThe Death of Lysandaמות ליסאנדהYitzhak Orpaz · 1964Literature