Pinchas Sadeh
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Pinchas Sadeh | |
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| Born | Pinchas Feldman 1929 Lemberg, Poland |
| Died | 29 January 1994 (64 years old) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Occupation | Novelist and poet |
| Nationality | Israeli |
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Pinchas Sadeh, also Pinhas Sadeh, (Hebrew: פנחס שדה, born in Lemberg, Poland 1929; died 29 January 1994 in Jerusalem, Israel) was a Polish-born Israeli novelist and poet.[1][2][3][4]
Biography
[edit]Pinhas Feldman (later Sadeh) was born in Galicia (then part of Poland).[1] His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, settling in Tel Aviv.[1] He lived and studied in Kibbutz Sarid. Later, he studied in England.[5] Sadeh worked as a shepherd at Kvutzat Kinneret. There he met Yael Sacks, whom he married in 1956 but the union lasted only three months. In 1962–1969, he was married to Yehudit.[6] He began publishing his work in 1945.[7]
Sadeh died in Jerusalem at the age of 64.[1][8]
Literary career
[edit]Sadeh's literary output consisted of six collections of verse, two novels, a novella, four books of essays, a children's book and a collection of Hassidic folktales. Sadeh's work addressed elementary existential issues. He spoke of his writing as "theological" and a "moral act."[9] His first poem translated into English, "Proverbs of the Virgins," appeared in Commentary magazine in August 1950.[10] His collections of poetry included Burden of Dumah.[1] His novels included One Man's Condition and Death of Avimelech.[1] He also wrote an autobiographical account of his early life (up to age 27), Life as a Parable. Life as a Parable became his most celebrated work. According to one literary critic, it "expressed a 'yearning for religiosity' in a country that sanctified secularism."[7]
Sade also wrote comic books, which he signed with a pseudonym.[11] He was the author of most of the comics published in Haaretz Shelanu, a children's magazine, using the name "Yariv Amazya." Many of his comics were science-fiction based.[12]
Awards and recognition
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Sadeh won the 1990 Bialik Prize for Literature, jointly with T. Carmi and Natan Yonatan.[13] He was a 1973 recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Pinchas Sadeh; Novelist, 64". The New York Times. January 30, 1994. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ Jeff Green (March 5, 1993). "Reading From Right To Left". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ Rochelle Furstenberg (March 26, 1992). "His Father's Son". The Jerusalem Report. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ Literary review. 1982. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ Hebrew book review. Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. 1965. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ The life and loves of writer Pinhas Sadeh
- ^ a b The life and loves of Writer Pinhas Sadeh
- ^ "Israeli poet, novelist dies". Times Daily. January 30, 1994. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature: Pinchas Sade
- ^ Out of Israel: The Odyssey of Pinhas Sadeh
- ^ Moori, Uri Moori, Jerusalem Post
- ^ Hebrew Comics: A History
- ^ Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum (2007). Encyclopaedia Judaica: Ra-Sam. Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 9780028659282. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
External links
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- 1929 births
- 1994 deaths
- Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Polish male novelists
- Israeli male novelists
- Israeli male poets
- 20th-century Polish novelists
- 20th-century Polish poets
- Polish male poets
- 20th-century Polish male writers
- Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
- Deaths from lung cancer in Israel
- Burials at Har HaMenuchot
- Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)