Yehuda Amichai Summary

Critical Essay by Warren Bargad It is Amichai's unique poetic voice that has proved so appealing through the years, a voice consistently in consonance with the spirit of his people and his tim... Read more

Critical Essay by Howard Schwartz As always, Amichai speaks (and often sings) in [Amen and Travels of a Latter-day Benjamin of Tudela] with a voice that is deceptively simple, understated, and utterl... Read more

Critical Essay by Vernon Young [Yehuda Amichai] lives in history as a fish does in water…. [In Time the] theme of dislocation, of places wiped out behind him, while remaining nominal, haunts t... Read more

Critical Essay by Gila Ramras-rauch Repetition and change are the basic elements of the self-periodization which marks Amichai's poetry. Basic images occur and recur, and time gives this proce... Read more

Critical Essay by Rochelle Ratner Biblical themes and the Israeli landscape, which have always been strong elements in Amichai's poetry, are present in [Love Poems, a collection of poems he ha... Read more

In the following essay, Mazor examines Amichai's unsentimental approach to the brutality of Israel's wars.       War's a brain-spatter... Read more

In the following essay, Kronfeld argues that, despite the opinion of his detractors to the contrary, Amichai demonstrates in his poetry a clearly defined philosophical and ontological system of though... Read more

In the following review, Ramras-Rauch presents a brief overview of Amichai's career and praises his collected volume A Life of Poetry: 1948–1994. "Life is lived forward and und... Read more

In the following essay, Kronfeld explores the ways in which Amichai retains accessibility while also using complex intertextuality in his poetry. Yehuda Amichai is the most distinguished Hebrew poe... Read more

In the following review, Ramras-Rauch presents a brief overview of Amichai's major themes and praises The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai as "another occasion to enjoy the work of a po... Read more

In the following review, Sullivan praises Assia Gutmann's translations of Amichai's work. The poems by Yehuda Amichai in Poems have been translated from the Hebrew by Assia Gutmann. S... Read more

In the following essay, Flinker examines Amichai's use of the biblical figures of Saul and David in his poetry. In a series of poems first published in 1958, a modern Israeli poet, Yehuda Am... Read more

In the following review, Stiller praises Amichai as a poet who is representative of the Israeli spirit and tradition, but who also adds an air of modernity to the historical consciousness of his poems... Read more

In the following review, Ramras-Rauch offers a favorable impression of Amichai's volume of short stories, noting Amichai's ability to suffuse ordinary experiences with extraordinary insi... Read more

In the following review of Time, Young addresses Amichai's use of language, his religious themes, and the historical context of his poetry. Young concludes that Amichai's poetry “... Read more

In the following review of Amichai's Open Closed Open, Biespiel offers a favorable assessment of the poet's accomplishments. For nearly half a century, Yehuda Amichai was Israeli poet... Read more

In the following essay, Abramson discusses the theme of love in Amichai's poetry. If Yehuda Amichai does not use as topics for his work all three of those that Dante considered fundamental t... Read more

In the following essay, Gold analyzes recurring motifs throughout Amichai's oeuvre. I've filtered out of the Book of Esther the residue of vulgar joy, and out of the Book of Jeremiah ... Read more

In the following essay, Hirsch explores central themes in the poetry of Amichai, such as love, war, history, and Jewish identity. 1 For more than thirty years Yehuda Amichai has been conducting his... Read more

In the following review, Bloch and Kronfeld discuss Amichai's perspective on God and Judaism, as expressed in his poetry. On the cover of Open Closed Open, Yehuda Amichai's new collec... Read more