Yair Hurvitz

Israeli poet

Yair Hurvitz (Hebrew: יאיר הורביץ; 1941–1988^[1]), also known as Yair Horowitz,^[2] was an Israeli poet who began publishing poetry in the 1960s, he was a member of the "Tel Aviv Poets" group.^[3] His poems mark a return to the tradition of Haim Nachman Bialik. According to literary critic, Ariel Hirschfeld, a poem by Hurvitz comes close "to an invocation, to the creation of a visionary world by means of the word."^[4]

He died in 1988 at the age of 47 from the heart disease that had plagued him since childhood.^[5]

References

^ "Yair Hurvitz". Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. Archived from the original on March 9, 2008.
^ Esther Raizen (1995). No Rattling of Sabers: An Anthology of Israeli War Poetry. University of Texas Press. pp. 170–. ISBN 978-0-292-77071-3.
^ Fred S. Moramarco (2004). The Poetry of Men's Lives: An International Anthology. University of Georgia Press. pp. 31–. ISBN 978-0-8203-2351-0.
^ Ariel Hirschfeld (2003). The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself. Wayne State University Press. pp. 345–. ISBN 978-0-8143-2485-1.
^ "Poetry International Web - Yair Hurvitz". israel.poetryinternationalweb.org. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011.