Robert Alter & Chana Kronfeld

Discussing the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, considered to be Israel’s greatest contemporary poet.

“Amichai is one of the biggest, most essential, most durable poetic voices of this past century–one of the most intimate, alive and human, wise, humorous, true, loving, inwardly free and resourceful, at home in every human situation. One of the real treasures.”–Ted Hughes

Robert Alter, Professor of the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley will read from The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai and Chana Kronfeld, Professor of Hebrew, Yiddish and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley will read from The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amicha. Discussion and reception to follow.

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