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Yocheved Bat-Miriam ( he, יוכבד בת-מרים; russian: Иохевед Бат-Мирьям; pen name of ''Yocheved Zhlezniak'') (5 March 1901 – 7 January 1980) was an Israeli poet. Bat-Miriam was Born in Belorussia to a 
Translation of a portion of Bat-Miriam's ''Cranes from the Threshold''
1901 births 1980 deaths Jews from the Russian Empire Belarusian Jews Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Soviet emigrants to Israel Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Brenner Prize recipients Israel Prize in literature recipients Israel Prize women recipients Israeli women poets Israeli poets 20th-century women writers 20th-century poets Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery Jewish women writers {{Israel-poet-stub
Hasidic
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family. She studied pedagogy in Kharkov
Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.
and at the universities of Odessa and Moscow. During this period, she participated in the revolutionary literary activities of the “Hebrew Octoberists”, a Communist
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literary group, and one of her earliest poem-cycles, a paean
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to revolutionary Russia entitled Erez (Land) was published in the group's anthology in 1926. She is unusual among Hebrew
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poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...
, later to be called 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 ...
, in 1928. Her first book of poetry, ''Merahok'' ("From a distance") was published in 1929. In 1948, her son Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz from the writer Haim Hazaz died in the 1947–1949 Palestine war
The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. It is known in Israel as the War of Independence ( he, מלחמת העצמאות, ''Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut'') and ...
. Since then she never wrote a poem again.
Selected works
* 1929:Zierler 2004: 330 notes 1932 according to the yiddish translation (Merahok. Ben-Ari, R. Habimah. Tel Aviv 1932); cf. Gilboa 1982: 308. ''Merahok'' ("From a distance"). * 1937: ''Erets Yisra'el'' ("The Land of Israel"). * 1940:Zierler 2004: 330 notes 1949. ''Re'ayon'' ("Interview"). * 1942: ''Demuyot meofek'' ("Images from the Horizon"). * 1942: ''Mishirei Russyah'' ("Poems of Russia"). * 1943: ''Shirim La-Ghetto'' ("Poems for the Ghetto"). * 1963: ''Shirim'' ("Poems"). * 1975: ''Beyn Chol Va-Shemesh'' ("Between Sand and Sun"). * 2014: ''Machatzit Mul Machatzit'' : ''Kol Ha-Shirim'' ("Collected Poems").Awards
* In 1963, Bat-Miriam was awarded the Brenner Prize forliterature
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. ''Davar'' Newspaper, 17 December 1963
* In 1964, Bat-Miriam was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature
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.
*In 1972, she was awarded the Israel Prize
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, for literature.
See also
*List of Bialik Prize recipients
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*List of Israel Prize recipients
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References
Further reading
* '' The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself'', 2nd new edition, by Stanley Burnshaw, T. Carmi, Susan Glassman, Ariel Hirschfield and Ezra Spicehandler (editors), published 31 March 2002, . * ''A Language Silenced'' : ''The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union'', by Jehoshua A. Gilboa. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, published 1982, / * ''And Rachel Stole the Idols'' : ''The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing'', by Wendy Zierler. Wayne State Univ. Press, published 2004, / .External links
Translation of a portion of Bat-Miriam's ''Cranes from the Threshold''
1901 births 1980 deaths Jews from the Russian Empire Belarusian Jews Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Soviet emigrants to Israel Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Brenner Prize recipients Israel Prize in literature recipients Israel Prize women recipients Israeli women poets Israeli poets 20th-century women writers 20th-century poets Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery Jewish women writers {{Israel-poet-stub