Found in Translation (Paperback)

Gabriel Levin

ISBN 10: 1874320233 / ISBN 13: 9781874320234

Published by The New Menard Press, London, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Found in Translation (Paperback)
• Publisher: The New Menard Press, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1874320233
• ISBN 13: 9781874320234
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The American-born Robert Friend, who died in Jerusalem in 1998, was a distinguished poet and translator from the Hebrew. Found in Translation: One Hundred Years of Modern Hebrew Poetry is a collection of his English-language versions of twenty Hebrew poets: Haim Nachman Bialik, David Vogel, Leah Goldberg, Yehuda Amichai, Natan Alterman, Gabriel Preil, Yaakov Fichman, Yaakov Steinberg, Rachel, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Esther Raab, Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Hayim Lenski, Zelda, Dan Pagis, Natan Zach, David Avidan, Dalia Ravikovitch, Dalia Herz and Zali Gurevitch. The volume is edited by the poet and translator Gabriel Levin. It is a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

About the Author

Robert Friend 1913-1998

Robert Friend was an American poet, translator, and educator who lived for nearly fifty years in Jerusalem. Friend was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York to Russian immigrant parents. After studying at Brooklyn College, Harvard and Cambridge, he taught English literature and writing in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Panama, France, England, and Germany. Robert Friend settled in Israel in 1950. He taught English and American Literature at the Hebrew University for over thirty years, at the same time becoming well-known as a poet (writing in English) and as a translator of Hebrew poetry. His poems and translations have appeared in many periodicals, including The New York Times, Encounter, The London Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Partisan Review, Poetry, Ariel, Commentary, The Jerusalem Post, and The Jerusalem Review. His publications include ten volumes of his own verse and six volumes of translations from Hebrew poets. A review of his work in the Jerusalem Review notes that Robert Friend is generally considered to be the most prominent figure among English language writers in Israel. According to the American Cultural Center in Jerusalem, Robert Friend was truly committed to his art, promoting and encouraging the development of English language poetry in Israel, and making Hebrew poetry more accessible through the translations.