Admiel Kosman ( he, אדמיאל קוסמן; born in 1957) is an Israeli poet and professor of

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Biography

Admiel Kosman was born in

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

to an

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Jewish family. His father hailed from a German Jewish family living in France, and his mother immigrated from Iraq.Poetry International Web: Admiel Kosman
After serving in the

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...

in an artillery unit and attending

Yeshivat Hakotel Yeshivat HaKotel ( he, ישיבת הכותל, lit=Yeshiva of the Western Wall) is a religious Zionist Hesder yeshiva situated in the Old City of Jerusalem. The yeshiva's building is located opposite the Temple Mount and overlooks the Kotel (W ...

in the Old City of

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, he studied graphic art and pottery at the

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( he, בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldest ...

. He did his Ph.D. in

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

Ramat Gan Ramat Gan ( he, רָמַת גַּן or , ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv and part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, and many ...

. Kosman has four children from his first marriage. Since relocating to Berlin, Kosman is a professor of Religious and Jewish Studies at Potsdam University and the academic director of Abraham Geiger Reform Rabbinical Seminary. Kosman is the author of eight books of poetry. His poems often deal with the tension between his religious faith and artistic sensibilities. Kosman has also written three volumes of

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scholarship on

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in traditional Jewish texts. In 2000, he was invited by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska to participate in an interfaith festival in Cracow, Poetry – between Prayer and Song.

Awards

Kosman has been awarded national prizes for poetry including the

Bernstein Prize The Bernstein Prize is an annual Israeli literary award for writers 50 years of age and younger. The prize is awarded by the Bernstein Foundation, named after Mordechai Bernstein, who left money in his estate to establish a foundation in order to ...

(original Hebrew-language poetry category), the Prime Minister's Prize (1976) and the

Brenner Prize The Brenner Prize is an Israeli literary prize awarded annually by the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel and the Haft Family Foundation. It was founded in the name of the author Yosef Haim Brenner Yosef Haim Brenner ( he, יוֹסֵף חַ� ...

Published work

Poetry

*''And Then the Act of Poetry'', 1980 e-Aharei Mora`ot Ma`ase Ha-Shir*''The Prince's Raiment'', 1988 igdei Nasich * ''Soft Rags'', 1991 martutim Rakim *''What I Can'', 1995 a Ani Yachol *''We Reached God'', 1998 iganu Le-Elohim *''Forty Love Poems and Two Additional Love Poems to God'', 2003 rbaim Shirei Ahava Ve-Shnei Shirei Ahava Nosafim Le-Elohim*''Proscribed Prayers'', Siddur Alternativi, Seventy One New Poems), Hakibutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv 2007 *''You’re Awesome!'' (Ktaim Itcha), Hakibutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv 2011 *''Approaching You in English: Selected Poems of Admiel Kosman'', translated by Lisa Katz and Shlomit Naim-Naor (Zephyr Press, 2011)

Books and articles

* Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism (Studia Judaica; de Gruyter, New York and Berlin, 2012) * "The Story of a Giant Story - The Winding Way of Og King of Bashan in the Jewish Aggadic Tradition", in: '' HUCA'' 73, (2002) pp. 157–190.
Men’s World: Reading Masculinity in Jewish Stories in a Spiritual Context.
Ergon, Würzburg 2009. * "Two Women Who Were Sporting with Each Other": A Reexamination of the Halakhic Approaches to Lesbianism as a Touchstone for Homosexuality in General, (with Anat Sharbat), '' HUCA'' 75, (2004), pp. 37–73 *''Men’s Tractate: Rav and the Butcher and other Stories – On Manhood, Love and Authentic Life in Aggadic and Hassidic Stories'', Keter, Jerusalem 2002Admiel Kosman (Admiel_Kosman) : Poetry, Prose, Biography, comments, texts
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Treading toward sanctity
Musings and meditations on close to a century's worth of discussions occasioned by Van Gogh's series of paintings of worn shoes. Was the artist's statement primarily aesthetic, or political, or was it religious? In: Ha-Aretz (19.11.2009)

References

External links

* https://admiel1kosman.wordpress.com/. The Blog of Admiel Kosman * https://uni-potsdam.academia.edu/admielkosman Admiel Kosman's page in academia
Interview with Admiel Kosman
Home Libraries, Vered Lee,

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Homepage of Prof. Admiel Kosman at the University of Potsdam

Review by E.C. Belly on Kosman`s new book
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