
Yehuda Amichai is Israel's foremost poet as well as a significant novelist and dramatist. He has received every major Israeli prize for literature, and his poetry has been translated into over twenty languages. Amichai has served as poet-in-residence at major universities across...

This volume provides an overview of a major twentieth-century literary figure, Amichai and the world's leading authorities explore all the major genres and themes of his work. It will prove valuable to those teaching modern Hebrew literature at English-language universities.