Avraham Shlonsky

Avraham Shlonsky was born on 6 March 1900 in Kryukovo, near Kremenchuk, in Ukraine, to a Chabad Hasidic father and a mother who had come to socialism. Sent at thirteen to the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, he returned to Russia when the war broke out and arrived in Palestine in the early 1920s. He built roads with the Labour Battalion, then settled in Tel Aviv, where he led the revolt of the young poets against the generation of Bialik and founded the journals Ketuvim and Turim. A translator of Pushkin and Shakespeare, he received the Israel Prize in 1967 and died in Tel Aviv on 18 May 1973.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryבגלגלAvraham Shlonsky · 1927not translated into EnglishLiterature