{"product_id":"yehuda-amichai-the-making-of-israels-national-poet-by-nili-scharf-gold","title":"Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet by Nili Scharf Gold","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"product_title entry-title\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.1em; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif inherit baseline rgb uppercase font-optical-sizing:=\"\" font-kerning:=\"\" font-feature-settings:=\"\" font-variation-settings:=\"\" vertical-align:=\"\" color:=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eYehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century's (and Israel's) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai's early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvre, untapped notebooks, and a cache of unpublished letters to a woman identified as Ruth Z. that Gold discovered convincingly demonstrates how the poet's German past infused his work, despite his attempts to conceal it as he adopted an Israeli identity.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"product_title entry-title\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.1em; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif inherit baseline rgb uppercase font-optical-sizing:=\"\" font-kerning:=\"\" font-feature-settings:=\"\" font-variation-settings:=\"\" vertical-align:=\"\" color:=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-optical-sizing: inherit font-kerning: font-feature-settings: font-variation-settings: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb letter-spacing: normal text-transform: none\u003e\u003cspan class=\"posted_in\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-optical-sizing: inherit font-kerning: font-feature-settings: font-variation-settings: vertical-align: baseline\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eNILI SCHARF GOLD is a professor of modern Hebrew literature at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Not Like a Cypress (Hebrew) and Haifa: City of Steps.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e","brand":"IsraelBookShop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439841480869,"sku":"978-1584657330","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/978-1584657330.jpg?v=1725094070","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/yehuda-amichai-the-making-of-israels-national-poet-by-nili-scharf-gold","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}