Avigdor Hameiri
Avigdor Hameiri (
Biography
Hameiri was born as Avigdor Menachem Feuerstein in 1890, in the village of Odavidhaza (near
He served in the Austro-Hungarian army along the
He recorded the events of his war service in his memoirs, The Great Madness (1929)[1] and Hell on Earth (1932).[2] Alon Rachamimov writes that Hameiri's war stories "reveal the degree to which Jewish identification processes could be contextual, angst-ridden, and laden with contradictory tendencies. The extent to which Hameiri was aware of his struggles regarding notions of 'loyalty,' 'fatherland,' and 'patriotism'...illuminate the complexities of collective identification among Habsburg Jews."[3] Gershon Shaked argues that Hameiri's anti-war stance is rooted in his Judaism.[4]
His first book of poetry was published around 1912, while he was still living in Budapest. He published the Israeli State's first independent newspaper and helped to organize the worker's bank. Hameiri was the first poet to whom the title Israel's Poet Laureate was awarded. His books have been published in 12 languages.[5]
He died in Israel on April 3, 1970.
Awards
- Kugel Prize awarded by the Municipality of Holon (1962)
- Israel Prize for literature (1968).[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Itamar's Bookstore: The Great Madness / Avigdor Hameiri". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
- ^ The Limits of Loyalty. Cole, Laurence, et al., 2007, p. 185.
- ^ The Limits of Loyalty. Cole, Laurence, et al., 2007, p. 181.
- ISBN 9780253337115.
Hameiri.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1968 (in Hebrew)".
Bibliography
- Abramson, Glenda (2008). Hebrew Writing of the First World War. Valentine Mitchell. as well.
- Rachamimov, A. "Collective Identifications and Austro-Hungarians Jews (1914-1918): The Contradictions and Travails of Avigdor Hameiri", in Laurence Cole and Daniel L. Unowsky (eds), The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy (Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2007), 178-197.