Found in Translation: Modern Hebrew Poets by Friend, Robert (9781592641741)

Found in Translation: Modern Hebrew Poets

by Friend, Robert , Friend, Robert , Levin, Gabriel

Paperback - English

The American-born Robert Friend, who died in Jerusalem in 1998, was a distinguished poet and translator. Friend's skill as a poet, combined with his facility for languages, allowed him to excel at the exceedingly difficult task of translating poetry. He translated some eight hundred works first written in Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, French, German, and Arabic, but is best known for his translation of Hebrew poetry. Toby Press is pleased to release this classic as a new bilingual edition, the original Hebrew poems appearing next to Friend's superlative translations.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1592641741

EAN

9781592641741

Publisher

TOBY PR LTD

Publication Date

01 Oct 2006

Pages

211

Weight (kg)

0.29

Dimensions (cm)

21.7 x 14.0 x 1.4

About Author

Robert Friend died on January 1998 in Jerusalem, Israel, of cancer. He 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, where he lived the rest of his life. He taught English and American Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem 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 poem