Ya'qub Bilbul
Ya'qub Bilbul | |
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Born | يعقوب بلبل 1920 Baghdad, Iraq |
Died | 2003 Israel |
Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
Nationality | Iraqi, Israeli |
Genre | Fictional prose, Social realism |
Ya'qub Bilbul (
Education
Bilbul studied in English at the Shammash and Alliance schools in
Career
In 1938, Bilbul released his first collection of short stories.
Bilbul worked as a clerk in the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce, whose president between 1938 and 1945 was another poet, Meir Basri. He and Basri revived the muwashshahat, strophic forms of poetry that were popular in Andalusia.[5] Between 1945 and 1951, Bilbul edited the Chamber's monthly journal and wrote its annual report. He wrote literary articles, as well as articles on economics and business which were published in Iraq and Egypt.[7] Both Basri and Bilbul also wrote Shakespearean sonnets.[9]
One of Bilbul's most popular short stories was Sura Tibq al-Asl, which is included in many
Reflective of his desire to present authentic accounts and to reach the masses, much of the dialogue in Bilbul's stories was written in
Like other Jewish writers in Iraq in the 1930s and 1940s, his literary works were targeted toward a wide audience, were influenced by both Western and Islamic traditions, and he wrote not as a Jew, but as an Iraqi.[8] He continued to write in Arabic after his emigration to Israel in 1951.[11]
References
- ^ Ghareeb, 2004, p. 125.
- ^ Reuven Snir (2009). "The Arab Jews: Language, Poetry, and Singularity". Goethe Institute.
- ^ Bashkin, 2008, p. 187.
- ^ Moreh, 1988, p. 83.
- ^ a b c Rejwan, 2004, p. xvi.
- ^ Clark in Suleiman and Muhawi, 2006, p. 186.
- ^ a b c Berg, 1996, p. 35.
- ^ a b Berg, 1996, p. 38.
- ^ a b c Berg, p. 36.
- ^ Berg, 1996, p. 62.
- ^ Berg, 1996, p. 50.
Bibliography
- Bashkin, Orit (2008). The other Iraq: pluralism and culture in Hashemite Iraq (Illustrated ed.). Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-5992-2.copy
- Berg, Nancy E. (1996). Exile from exile: Israeli writers from Iraq. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-2979-2.
- Clark, Peter (2006). ISBN 978-0-7486-2073-9.
- Ghareeb, Edmund; Dougherty, Beth (2004). Historical dictionary of Iraq (Illustrated ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-4330-1.
- Giladi, G. N. (1990). Discord in Zion: conflict between Ashkenazi & Sephardi Jews in Israel. Scorpion Publishing. ISBN 978-0-905906-87-4.
- Moreh, Shmuel (1988). Studies in modern Arabic prose and poetry (Illustrated ed.). BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-08359-2.
- Rejwan, Nissim (2004). The last Jews in Baghdad: remembering a lost homeland. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70293-6.