miBayit

Broides, Avraham

Verlag: Eled, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1971

Beschreibung

In Hebrew. 101, (2) pages. 211 x 142 mm. Inscribed in Hebrew to Miichel (Milton) Arfa, who was a distinguished Rabbi, author and professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy. Dr. Arfa taught generations of students at Yeshiva University, Herzliah Hebrew Teachers Institute, Hunter College, HUC-JIR and NYU. As chairman of the Israel Matz Foundation, Dr. Arfa devoted himself to aiding indigent Hebrew writers, and published scholarly works of Hebrew literature and philosophy. He was a gifted teacher, humanitarian, scholar, lover of Zion and above all a modest and quiet doer of good deeds. He died in 2003. Inscribed to Dr. Arfa by BROIDES, ABRAHAM (1907-1979), the Hebrew poet who was born in Vilna and settled in Eretz Israel in 1923. He worked for several years as a laborer, an experience which his poetry is rooted in, and was one of the founders of Ha-No'ar ha-Oved ("Working Youth Organization"). From 1928 until 1964 he was secretary of the Hebrew Writers Association and also edited their publication, Daf. Broides first began to publish poetry in the early 1920s in Ha-Kokhav and other journals. He began as a proletarian poet describing the anguish and the toil of the poor. Later he wrote landscape poetry with simple and lyrical lines. He is also the author of several volumes of children's verse. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 013438

Bibliografische Details

Titel: miBayit

Verlag: Eled, Tel Aviv, Israel

Erscheinungsdatum: 1971

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)