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The Doubts and Loves of Yehuda Amichai: Israeli, European, and International Poet presents the life and works of Yehuda Amichai, born Ludwig Pfeuffer in Würzburg, Germany. The book is based on copious material from Amichai's personal archive in the Beinecke Library at Yale University, other archives and numerous interviews with family members and others who knew him well. Each phase of the biography is linked to its overarching historical context and provides a literary analysis of the key features of his writing. What emerges is a multifaceted picture of a crucial period in the 20th century in which Amichai was both a witness and an actor, without ever taking a simplistic, direct position in his poetry.
Amichai, an engaged political poet, was an enlightened, humanitarian European while remaining an authentic Israeli who loved his country and was deeply involved finding solutions to its problems. Amichai was also a great admirer of women. The analysis of his tempestuous love life helps shed light on important aspects of his prose and poetry. Several chapters are also devoted to the background and influence of Amichai's works in genres other than poetry including his two novels and a collection of short stories, his radio plays, and his children's poetry.
Contents
Introduction: Amichai from Inside and Out
Chapter 1: 1924-1936: Childhood in Würzburg, Germany
Chapter 2: 1936-1942: Teenage Years in Petach Tikva and Jerusalem
Chapter 3: 1942-1946: Military Policeman and Soldier in the British Army
Chapter 4r: July 1946-April 1948: Teachers' College and the Beginning of Amichai's Teaching Career
Chapter 5: April 1948-Summer 1949: The War of Independence, Marriage to Tamar
Chapter 6: 1949-1955: University Education, the Trip to the US, Amichai's First Book
Chapter 7:1955-1958: Responses to His Book, First Award, Separation from Tamar,
the Stormy Affair with Clarice
Chapter 8t: 1957-1959: Two More Volumes of Poetry, Clarice Leaves Israel
Chapter 9: 1958-1963: Clarice in Amichai's Poetry, the Birth of Roni, Publication of
Stories and a Novel
Chapter 10: 1962-1964: Plays and Radio Scripts, Publication of Poems 1948-1962
Chapter 11: 1964-1968: A Year in New York, Friendship with Ted Hughes, Return to Israel after the Six Day War
Chapter 12: 1968-1971: Publication of Now in the Storm, the Mashkof Group, Visits from Major Poets
Chapter 13: 1970-1990: Volumes of Poetry in Hebrew and in Translation, Major Prizes At Home and Abroad, Becoming the Middle-Aged Father of Young Children
Chapter 14: Amichai's Last Volume of Poetry, the Eve of His Death and Posthumous Projects of Remembrance
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
